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July 1, 2019

Clean Up Your Climate Lingo (Pt. 1)

Written by: Ian Thom & Elisabeth Gick  Words are profoundly important. Words serve as an essential tool in communicating with others. They can trigger powerful emotional reactions that call people to action or obfuscate the truth.   Is it Global Warming, Climate Change, or a Climate Crisis? When speaking of the existential threat that our climate faces, many terms are often thrown around – global warming, climate change, climate crisis, and climate emergency to name a few.
June 28, 2019

350 CO & Colorado Coalition for a Livable Climate Send Letter to State’s Congressional Delegation

 Fort Collins, CO – The Colorado Coalition for a Livable Climate (CCLC) recently sent a letter to all nine members of Colorado’s congressional delegation urging them to work on moving legislation forward in Congress that will address the climate crisis.  We told eight of them this: “Given the threat the climate crisis poses to Colorado and the number of bills related to climate issues that were passed by the State General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Polis earlier this year, we are surprised and disappointed by the apparent lack of interest in climate issues on the part of the majority of Colorado’s congressional delegation. 
June 18, 2019

Community Groups call on COGCC for Pause in Oil and Gas Permitting During SB 19-181 Rulemaking Process, Citing Rulemaking as “Hopelessly Out of Sequence”

DENVER, CO – On Monday, June 17th, and Tuesday, June 18th, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) hosted the first of several special rulemaking hearings to enact the directives of SB 19-181, the ‘Protect Public Welfare Oil and Gas Operations,’ which passed the Colorado Legislature on April 17th. This new law reformed the Commission’s mission to no longer foster oil and gas development, but to regulate oil and gas in such as way as to protect public health, safety, welfare, the environment, and wildlife.

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