Environment

Local News

Durango to recruit residents to research stormwater fees

Applications for focus group open now

December 7, 2024

Local News

TDL Recycling in Bayfield shutting down services

Company cites staffing shortages, problems finding new building lease

December 6, 2024

Regional News

Colorado still has a middling recycling rate, but residents are wasting less overall

Demand for recycling is overwhelming capacity at the drop off in Dolores. The Four Corners Recycling Initiative is hoping to…

November 17, 2024

Outdoors

New rules for Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

activities now limited to designated travel routes

November 14, 2024

Local News

Durango seeks long-term funding for stormwater management

Sediment unloading, flooding and failed infrastructure need attention

November 13, 2024

Local News

In La Plata Mountains, possibility of copper mining has neighbors anxious

Metallic Minerals faced stiff opposition at a community meeting in Breen

November 12, 2024

Local News

Some residents want end to Durango’s fluoridation of drinking water

experts defend nearly 80-year practice

November 9, 2024

Local News

Nature’s legal advocate headquarters in Durango

Law Center a voice for environments around the world

November 1, 2024

Local News

Durango residents can be free of fallen autumn leaves with new on-demand collection service

to Farm Compost partners with city to perform no-charge leaf pickup

October 8, 2024

Local News

EPA celebrates $4.9 million grant to Southern Ute Tribe to cut air pollution

Program will cut greenhouse gas emissions from tribal natural gas sources by 29%

October 1, 2024

Local News

Boebert’s bill to protect fish passes House, with looming concern over funding shortage

stakeholders are concerned about lack of $22 million in funds

September 27, 2024

Local News

Colorado senator’s bill could, finally, fulfill Gold King financial damage claims

Sen. Michael Bennet will introduce legislation to provide $3.3 million for lost business

September 25, 2024

New Mexico

Chaco Canyon buffer zone in the crossfires of Project 2025

The U.S. Interior Department said on Nov. 15 that oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National…

September 20, 2024

Local News

Durango sustainability manager discusses water use with panel

Pool said city’s water comes predominantly from Florida River, supplemented by Animas River

September 15, 2024

Regional News

For better water forecasts, scientists say we should pay more attention to spring

85% of Colorado River starts as snow in the high-altitude mountains

September 6, 2024

Associated Press

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

Downwinder Paul Pino heads through the SALA Event Center toward the screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the…

August 24, 2024

Local News

Longtime Durango Trails executive director steps down after 19 years

Monroe Brown helped develop 50 miles of trail system during tenure

August 20, 2024

Local News

Some Durango utility customers face $150 plumber fees or disconnected water

seeks to get in compliance with state’s ‘backflow preventer’ testing requirements

August 15, 2024

Local News

Durango becomes ‘sentinel’ site for monitoring diseases like COVID-19 in wastewater

surveilling for enteroviruses, RSV’s and influenza

August 14, 2024

Regional News

Tiny, endangered toads transplanted to Colorado pond successfully breed after 7 years

Biologists are thrilled at discovery of Boreal tadpoles in a bog in the mountains

August 13, 2024

AP New Mexico

Arizona governor negotiates pause in hauling of uranium ore across Navajo Nation

Gov. Katie Hobbs intervened this week after talking with Navajo President Buu Nygren

August 5, 2024

Local News

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad to install 868 solar panels on buildings

American Heritage Railways receives grant from USDA for green initiative

July 30, 2024

Local News

Residents examine city’s sustainability efforts at Engage Durango forum

Residents ask about greenhouse gas reduction and other strategies for going green

July 26, 2024

New Mexico

Downwinders continue to seek justice 79 years after the Trinity Test

This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near…

July 17, 2024

Local News

Southern Utes take federal regulatory authority of minor air pollution sources

is first in the nation to do so, EPA official says

July 14, 2024

New Mexico

Gathering will mark 45 years since the largest radioactive release in U.S. history hit New Mexico

Church Rock spill is the third largest radioactive waste release globally, after Fukushima and Chernobyl

July 12, 2024

Local News

During first year, Durango park rangers focus on safety, education

created positions to help monitor 100 miles of natural surface trails

July 12, 2024

Local News

Five Durango organizations receive grants for helping make city more sustainable

Green Durango Grants, decided based on five sectors in city’s Municipal Sustainability Action Plan, are worth $5,000 apiece

July 4, 2024

Local News

Green thumbs share tips on making do with limited space, tough climate

Durango area has six different plant hardiness zones; which one are you working within?

June 27, 2024

Local News

Walk, bus, bike or anything but drive for Durango’s 13th Clean Commute Day

scheduled to raise awareness of alternative transportation options

June 17, 2024