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Down the Line: Uinta Basin oil trains would quadruple hazardous rail shipments through city of Denver

Down the Line: Uinta Basin oil trains would quadruple hazardous rail shipments through city of Denver

A freight train derailed at the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City on June 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) COAL CREEK, Colo. — As trains heading east from the Moffat…

Down the Line: Colorado River headwaters ground zero for inevitable train derailments, oil spills in local streams

Down the Line: Colorado River headwaters ground zero for inevitable train derailments, oil spills in local streams

An aerial view of the aftermath of the train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023. (National Transportation Safety Board) At 88 miles long, with a…

Down the Line: A hard look at how oil train spills would impact canyons of the Colorado River

Down the Line: A hard look at how oil train spills would impact canyons of the Colorado River

Passengers on Amtrak’s California Zephyr sit in the sightseer lounge on June 5, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) BURNS, Colo. — Beneath the limestone cliffs, the trunk of a lone, dead…

Down the Line: Difference between God and the railroad? ‘God might answer your prayers’

Down the Line: Difference between God and the railroad? ‘God might answer your prayers’

A flare stack burns at a natural gas facility in Garfield County on May 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) DE BEQUE, Colo. — As they head east out of the…

Down the Line: Utah oil train route would retrace Colorado railroad history through Grand Valley

Down the Line: Utah oil train route would retrace Colorado railroad history through Grand Valley

A coal train crosses the Colorado-Utah border on May 15, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) GRAND VALLEY, Colo. — Five miles due south of the point where Interstate 70 crosses the…

Down the Line: A closer look at the Colorado, local route for Utah’s planned deluge of Uinta Basin, waxy crude oil trains

Down the Line: A closer look at the Colorado, local route for Utah’s planned deluge of Uinta Basin, waxy crude oil trains

A train of mostly empty tank cars derailed outside Suncor Energy’s oil refinery in Commerce City on June 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) A proposal to build a new short-line…

Vail native Johnston elected Denver mayor

Vail native Johnston elected Denver mayor

Seven years after he departed the Colorado Senate, Mike Johnston’s third time seeking higher office proved to be the charm. After placing third in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor…

Billionaire donors with local ties give Vail native Johnston a big boost in Denver mayoral race

Billionaire donors with local ties give Vail native Johnston a big boost in Denver mayoral race

Left: Denver mayor candidate Kelly Brough receives the endorsement of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance at an event on May 12, 2023. Right: Brough’s runoff opponent, former state Sen.…

Colorado Democrats take another stab at passing CORE Act

Colorado Democrats take another stab at passing CORE Act

President Joe Biden signing the Camp Hale National Monument executive order in 2022. Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress will try again to pass the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act,…

Polis vetoes bipartisan wolf reintroduction bill

Polis vetoes bipartisan wolf reintroduction bill

A pair of wolves (courtesy of Colorado Parks & Wildlife). Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday vetoed legislation passed by lawmakers in the General Assembly that his administration said could…