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2 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” wrote singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1969, lamenting the view from her hotel window in Hawaii of parking lots “as far as the eye could see,” she said in a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times. Similar concerns are expressed by critics who argue against paving over agricultural properties with solar panels, so the U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding studies to see if solar panels can be successfully integrated with agriculture.
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3 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
Using gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment during the summer is now banned in the Denver Metro/North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area, but only for government entities — for now. The Regional Air Quality Control Commission enacted a rule in 2024 banning the use of small gas-powered equipment by the government.
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4 days ago | 
coloradopolitics.com | Scott Weiser
Using gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment during the summer is now banned in the Denver Metro/North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area, but only for government entities — for now. The Regional Air Quality Control Commission enacted a rule in 2024 banning the use of small gas-powered equipment by the government.
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6 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has announced four opportunities for the public to learn about and comment on regulatory actions currently under consideration. This is part of the commission’s program to improve the clarity and transparency of what critics have characterized as a “Byzantine” and impenetrable system, which requires substantial expertise in commission procedures to understand.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah, endorsing a limited interpretation of a key environmental law. The 8-0 decision comes after an appeal to the high court from a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voiding the project’s 3,600-page Environmental Impact Statement and the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the proposed 88-mile railway from Duchesne, Utah to near Price, Utah.
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2 weeks ago | 
gazette.com | Scott Weiser
Motorcycle fatalities have jumped 60% since 2018, and 2024 was Colorado’s deadliest year ever for motorcyclists, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. Meanwhile, passenger vehicle deaths decreased by 7% and traffic enforcement has dropped 54%. In 2024, 165 motorcyclists died on Colorado’s roads, the highest number in the state’s history. Motorcycle deaths account for 24% of all traffic deaths, even though motorcycles are only 3% of the motor vehicle fleet.
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2 weeks ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
The battle between building owners and state mandates for energy efficiency, which they say will cost billions to comply with, ratcheted up a notch when the building associations involved in a recent lawsuit against the state and the City and County of Denver sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting that the Department of Justice investigate potential violations of federal law.
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2 weeks ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
Motorcycle fatalities have jumped 60% since 2018, and 2024 was Colorado’s deadliest year ever for motorcyclists, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. Meanwhile, passenger vehicle deaths decreased by 7% and traffic enforcement has dropped 54%. In 2024, 165 motorcyclists died on Colorado’s roads, the highest number in the state’s history. Motorcycle deaths account for 24% of all traffic deaths, even though motorcycles are only 3% of the motor vehicle fleet.
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2 weeks ago | 
coloradopolitics.com | Scott Weiser
Motorcycle fatalities have jumped 60% since 2018, and 2024 was Colorado’s deadliest year ever for motorcyclists, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. Meanwhile, passenger vehicle deaths decreased by 7% and traffic enforcement has dropped 54%. In 2024, 165 motorcyclists died on Colorado’s roads, the highest number in the state’s history. Motorcycle deaths account for 24% of all traffic deaths, even though motorcycles are only 3% of the motor vehicle fleet.
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2 weeks ago | 
denvergazette.com | Scott Weiser
Maintenance on the Regional Transportation District’s E and H Lines from Tuesday through Thursday will disrupt transit riders between 4:30 a.m. and about noon each day. Normal schedules will return on Thursday, May 22. The repairs will eliminate the speed restrictions between Yale and Southmoor stations, the last of 29 slow zones implemented last year on the district’s more than 120 miles of light rail tracks. H Line will not operate north of Southmoor during the maintenance period.
