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Colorado congressman John Salazar is taking some heat from environmentalists and some Democrats for voting against climate change legislation.

When U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., voted against the American Clean Energy Security Act that recently, and narrowly, passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, he surprised some of his constituents, including fellow Democrats and environmental activists.

A measure that would give federal officials greater sway over drilling for natural gas has drawn opposition from Club 20.

The energy-climate bill passed last week in the House will face an even tougher battle in the Senate, U.S. Sen.

A $5 million appropriation for the Arkansas Valley Conduit has been approved by the House Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee.

The Democratic-controlled U.S. House has narrowly passed sweeping legislation calling for the nation's first-ever limits on pollution linked to global warming.

Activists from environmental watchdog Greenpeace and Oxfam protest outside the Asian Development Bank during a climate change summit on June 16, in Manila, Philippines.

WASHINGTON - In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.

Federal energy authorities are looking for comments on their ideas about gas wells in the neighborhood of the Project Rulison nuclear blast site.

Democratic House leaders, President Barack Obama and environmental heavyweights scrambled Thursday to find the support needed to pass an ambitious global-warming bill, one of the administration's chief environmental initiatives.

John Salazar is teetering on the wrong side of history. The 3rd District Democrat is undecided about the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which seeks to cut greenhouse-gas emissions far more meaningfully than eons of bike-to-work days.

One of my hobbies, turned small home-based business, is to sell on eBay. I have sold items to people all over the world.

So, if Craig Meis is right and "99.5 percent of it is basically water and sand", what's the problem in providing a list of the ingredients in the fluids used in hydraulic fracturing? That practice, injecting fluids into underground rock and tight sand formations, is common out in the gas patch that includes our watersheds, private wells and a lot ...

Colorado's congressional delegation Tuesday passed another hurdle in its efforts to make a free-standing Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in the Denver area a reality.

This week the Colorado mountain pine beetle is the topic on Capitol Hill. Forest and Colorado government officials are in Washington warning Congress about how catastrophic the beetle really is to our forests and communities.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar called a truce in the fight over the expansion of the Army's Pion Canyon training facility Wednesday, saying that he no longer plans to push Congress to enact a permanent ban of the Army's effort.

The battle over expanding a southeast Colorado Army training site has taken another twist, with Republican congressman Doug Lamborn saying a House committee killed an amendment aimed at blocking expansion.

Some Colorado communities use wilderness designations as an economic development tool, but Colorado Springs is not among them.

Colorado congressman John Salazar says a House subcommittee has voted to continue a ban on spending Department of Defense money on expanding an Army training site in southeast Colorado.

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