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Photos, then and now: Revisiting the Marshall fire’s devastation one year later, as communities rebuild
Recently I returned to some of the neighborhoods where I documented the Marshall fire's devastation a year ago. Here are photos of those places then and now.
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Ute Mountain Ute peace walk draws attention to uranium mill’s environmental and health impacts
The White Mesa mill isn’t just the only functioning uranium mill in the country. It is also a disposal site for radioactive waste from around the world.
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Electric buses, e-bikes and clean trucks: How Colorado Democrats plan to clear the state’s dirty air
A proposed $124 million bill at the Colorado legislature aims to provide incentives to reduce air pollution across the state.
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A new Colorado bill would fund free transit rides in the summer to help improve air quality
The proposal would create a new grant program to help eliminate fares during the summer ozone season, which lasts from June 1 through Aug. 31.
Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used
Today, 15 percent of Southern Utes living on the reservation in southwest Colorado don’t have running water in their homes at all.
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Climate change is worsening ozone problems on the Front Range. Hispanic communities feel it the most
When air quality on the Front Range is bad, it's often because of ozone - a gas created by a mixture of emissions from cars, oil and gas drilling and industrial facilities, combined with the heat and light from the summer sun.
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Colorado Democratic lawmakers say they have a deal with Gov. Jared Polis on a controversial climate bill
The plan for more aggressive climate action has split Colorado Democrats.
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