Environment/Energy

Screen capture of the Qorvis-managed website of Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, featuring an image of Teodorin.

The (Alleged) Kleptocrat’s Webmaster

| 10.16.12 | 10:41 am | View Article

Washington-based Qorvis Communications has continued to work on behalf of the president of Equatorial Guinea’s family and has managed the website of a government ministry currently in the crosshairs of international corruption investigations. More…

NTSB photo of ruptured Enbridge pipeline.

Enbridge, regulators faulted in Michigan oil spill

| 07.10.12 | 5:57 pm | View Article

LANSING — The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the massive oil spill that contaminated nearly 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan could have been avoided. More…

Fires in High Park in Poudre Canyon about 15 miles from Ft. Collins, Colo. Official Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jess Geffre.

Experts explore public policy implications of fires

David O. Williams | 06.28.12 | 1:46 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

ASPEN, COLO. — Public policy and political will must shift as dramatically as the winds that have whipped Colorado’s record wildfires, experts say, or the state’s residents will continue to pay a higher and higher price for forests that are dying due to global climate change. More…

Rep. Jared Polis (Image courtesy of Rep. Jared Polis)

Congressman seeks to increase distance between fracking and schools

Troy Hooper | 06.20.12 | 5:22 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here, the second part here, the third part here. and the fourth part here More….
BOULDER, COLO. — There are a lot of opinions on how

Political battle lines drawn over fracking in Colo.

Troy Hooper | 06.20.12 | 5:14 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in The Colorado Independent’s ongoing series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here, the second part here and the third part here. More…
As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are

This gas well, which is 360 feet north of Trail Ridge Middle School in Longmont, led to the contamination of area ground water. (Photo via LongmontROAR.org)

Residents of Longmont, Colo., seek fracking ban

Troy Hooper | 06.06.12 | 2:16 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

Editor’s note: This is the third installment in an ongoing Colorado Independent series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here and the second part here. More…
LONGMONT, COLO. — As she kept a watchful eye on her playful toddler, Lindsay Gahn pulled out a state-issued map of

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Coloradans protest fracking near schools

Troy Hooper | 06.05.12 | 10:48 am | The Colorado Independent | View Article

ERIE, COLO. — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano roared into the plastic megaphone as if hers were the voice of the blue knotted-up balloon tiger she clutched beneath her left arm. More…

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In Colorado, fracking near schools

Troy Hooper | 06.04.12 | 2:59 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

ERIE, COLO. — Flaggers in bright yellow vests stopped traffic on the parkway in Erie, Colo., Wednesday as a convoy of semi-trailer trucks rumbled toward Red Hawk Elementary hauling sound barriers to muffle a gas extraction project that is vexing many residents in this once peaceful family neighborhood. More…