Meghan Lopez

Dec 5, 2024 | denver7.com | Brandon Richard |Meghan Lopez |Dalton Ross

DENVER — Colorado will soon become the second state — after Oregon — to launch a psychedelic therapy program. The state will begin accepting applications from those wanting to provide psychedelic therapy services on Dec. 31. The first healing centers — where psychedelics will be administered — are expected to open in June 2025. Voters approved the legalization of certain psychedelic mushrooms in Nov. 2022.

Sep 27, 2024 | denver7.com | Russell Haythorn |Meghan Lopez

BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) — Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. “That’s two to three inches of growth on the spruce,” said Stevens-Rumann, interim director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.

Sep 5, 2024 | koaa.com | Robert Garrison |Meghan Lopez |Veronica Acosta

DENVER — Imagine, if you will, you're cruising down Interstate 25 at a relatively smooth pace when you suddenly hit the brakes as a sea of gridlocked cars seemingly appears out of nowhere. No, it's not the Twilight Zone. You have just entered Colorado's most congested corridor—Central I-25 in Denver. The roughly 7-mile section of I-25 from S. Santa Fe Drive to the Interstate 70 interchange is arguably the Mile High City's most frustrating traffic bottlenecks, and it won't get better anytime soon.

Sep 4, 2024 | denver7.com | Robert Garrison |Meghan Lopez |Veronica Acosta

DENVER — Imagine, if you will, you're cruising down Interstate 25 at a relatively smooth pace when you suddenly hit the brakes as a sea of gridlocked cars seemingly appears out of nowhere. You have just entered Colorado's most congested corridor—Central I-25 in Denver. The roughly 7-mile section of I-25 from S. Santa Fe Drive to the Interstate 70 interchange is arguably the Mile High City's most frustrating traffic bottlenecks, and it won't get better anytime soon.

Jul 2, 2024 | koaa.com | Angelika Albaladejo |Meghan Lopez |Tomas Hoppough

PIERCE, Colo. — Across Colorado, sprawling solar energy farms and towering wind power turbines may soon make way for a newer, more experimental form of green energy: geothermal power. Geothermal energy is generated by tapping into hot water trapped in rock deep below the Earth’s surface. Many different technologies and approaches are being tested to see what will be most effective in Colorado.