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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
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’
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…
Boebert’s brutal month of June comes to a close with Frisch on attack over abortion, missed vote
Boebert with a backdrop of guns during a Zoom committee meeting in 2021. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has had a busy month of racking up headlines for what her constant…
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…
Holy Cross Energy grapples with rooftop solar net-metering equity as renewable percentage increases
Scott Mcdaniel bought a 15-kilowvwatt solar array for his house in Eagle in 2022. Now, he’s second-guessing that $43,000 investment. Holy Cross Energy, his local utility, proposes to revamp its…
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…
U.S. House Natural Resources panel OKs bill to ban BLM from leasing land for conservation
BLM-administered McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area near Grand Junction (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management). The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee on a party-line 20-16 vote Wednesday approved a bill to…
Economic forecasts predict slowdown in Colorado next year after larger TABOR refunds for 2023
The Colorado capitol in Denver (photo by Quentin Young/Newsline). Colorado’s economy is expected to grow at a rate that exceeds the national average through the second half of 2023, but…
Colorado, other states look to step up protections for wetlands in wake of SCOTUS rollback
Tens of millions of acres of wetlands are no longer protected by the Clean Water Act after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources…