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New Poll Shows Protecting Colorado’s Waterways is Good Policy and Good Politics

Coloradans overwhelmingly support an Obama administration proposal to restore protections for Colorado’s rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands, according to a recent poll commissioned by leading environmentalists and sportsmen organizations.

News Release | Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center

Over 720,000 Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Dumped into Colorado’s Rivers

Industrial facilities dumped over 700,000 pounds of toxic chemicals into Colorado’s waterways, more than a third of which went into the South Platte, according to a new report released today by Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center.  Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act also reports that 226 million pounds of toxic chemicals were discharged into 1,400 waterways across the country.

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Over 100 Public Leaders, Business Owners, Local Farmers Call for Protections for Colorado’s Rivers

State Senator Lucia Guzman, Commerce City Mayor Pro Tem Dominick Moreno, Dvorak Expeditions owner Bill Dvorak, and Confluence Kayaks owner Alex Manzo joined Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center at the Colorado State Capitol to call on President Barack Obama to restore Clean Water Act protections to the Colorado River and waterways across Colorado and the country.

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Cotter Corporation to stop processing uranium in Cañon City

On December 16, 2010, Cotter Corporation announced that it will stop processing uranium at its mill in Cañon City. The announcement comes two years after Environment Colorado helped pass a law designed to force the company to clean up or shut down.

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Aspen City Council Passes Plastic Bag Ban

Today the Aspen City Council voted 4-1 to pass an ordinance that bans plastic bags and places a $0.20 fee on paper bags at grocery stores in Aspen. The law will go into effect on May 1, 2012.

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State Land Board to pull South Park Basin drilling leases

Three oil and gas lease tracts on the South Park Basin were pulled from an upcoming February 17th Colorado State Land Board lease sale in a move advocates hailed as a victory for drinking water and wildlife.

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JeffCo uranium mine decision draws praise

Local officials and advocates laud mining division for requiring Cotter to take immediate action to clean up water at Schwartzwalder uranium mine


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Getting the public back into public health

Bennet, Markey commended for asking EPA to involve public on in-situ uranium oversight

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Efforts to reform natural gas development gain momentum

As the House Natural Resources Committee holds hearings on reforms to the nation's oil and gas program, more than 160 community and national organizations across the country signed on to a letter of support for passage of legislation that would protect drinking water from the growing impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a process used in most natural gas drilling projects.

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DeGette, Polis lead charge to protect Colorado’s drinking water

The following is a press statement by Matt Garrington, field director of Environment Colorado, in response to today’s introduction by U.S. Rep.  Diana DeGette (D-CO), U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA)  of the Fracking Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act.

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