News Release | Environment Colorado

90 Local Elected Officials, Recreational Businesses, Outdoors Groups Call on President Obama to Protect Colorado’s Parks

Today, Environment Colorado and 90 groups released a letter to President Obama calling for lasting protections from drilling and pollution for parks like Rocky Mountain National Park. 

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Senator Udall Shows Colorado’s Parks Some Valentine’s Day Love

Today, U.S. Senator Mark Udall joined a bipartisan group of Senators to introduce a bill to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund on the 50th anniversary of its original introduction.

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Chimney Rock Designated a National Monument

President Obama applauded for declaring Chimney Rock in Southwest Colorado a National Monument under the Antiquities Act.

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Rocky Mountains at risk, Colorado wilderness protections attacked

Environment Colorado released a new report today revealing that pristine areas across the Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park and hundred of miles of Colorado wilderness and Roadless areas could be at risk of development and oil and gas extraction if bills moving through the House of Representatives are signed into law.  The report, “Trashing our Treasures: Congressional Assault on the Best of America and Colorado,” exposes a startling trend of legislative attacks on our state’s treasured places in the Rockies and beyond.

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Environment Colorado Comments on the State of the Union

Last night, President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address to Congress.

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Nearly 100,000 citizens urge Sec. Salazar to protect Grand Canyon from uranium mining

 Last week Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar received comments from more than 98,200 citizens asking him to protect the lands around Grand Canyon National Park from mining.