According to the recent UN Climate Change Report, recent weather events have reached a scale unseen across centuries to possibly thousands of years. The report also found that limiting human impact on global warming requires reaching at least net-zero CO2 emissions, coupled…
Colorado manufacturing and energy businesses in nearly every industry are required to maintain compliance with various public health and safety regulations. In June, the Colorado General Assembly added another law to select facilities’ plates: HB 1189, Regulate Air Toxics.
The impacts of the federal government’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commissions in the late 1980s and early 1990s have reverberated in Colorado for decades. The redevelopment plan of PuebloPlex is focused on creating a hub for manufacturing, distribution and railroad-related industries.
Natural gas is currently used by both residential and commercial building owners for a variety of purposes, with water heating, space heating, and cooking making up the primary preferred applications. Over the last year, environmental groups have been targeting the natural gas industry and its consumers through local bans on new natural gas hookups. A look at how this could affect access to affordable and reliable energy.
Land reclamation and restoration is the process of reclaiming and restoring the land in and around an oil and gas site, pipeline, or mining location after extraction is complete. A Reclamation Plan is being required by more and more state and federal agencies as part of a surface use plan of operation, including in Colorado where reclamation is required by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC).
Going solar is a great way to get affordable, reliable electricity for decades. Right now is a particularly good time to go solar, as COVID-19 relief legislation recently passed by Congress extends the Investment Tax Credit for solar, so business owners can recoup 26 percent of what they spend on solar systems installed this year or next.
With energy efficiency requirements escalating along the Front Range, building owners and managers are wisely turning their attention to how well their buildings are performing in terms of meeting important sustainability and energy-conserving goals.
Carbon fiber, strong and light, has been around since the 1970s. Already carbon fiber is used in high-end cars and very substantially in the Boeing 847, but it is expensive and made from petroleum. Making it from coal could bring the cost down – but there is that engineering to be done.
In summer 2019, the state launched a free online platform called Green Business Tracker co.greenbiztracker.org that can be utilized by local programs. Derek Boer, Colorado Green Business Program coordinator, says interest in starting new local programs has grown in the past year.
This year has brought challenges aplenty to the Colorado oil industry, which accounts for almost 4% of U.S. total crude oil production and also holds about 5% of the nation's economically recoverable crude oil prices.
The broad-based Colorado Electric Vehicle Coalition is looking for to help move the needle on ambitious new EV advancement campaigns. In April, the City of Denver and the Colorado Energy Office both released comprehensive EV plans.
The pilot program demonstrated a cost-efficient CO2 exchange for breweries and marijuana businesses to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions and make better products for their communities.
In January, the private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs achieved carbon neutrality in its operations. The campus has reached zero net emissions in greenhouse gases in all operations for which they own or control.
As a supplier of both internal combustion and electric powered lifting equipment, FMH often receives questions about which powered lift equipment is the best to utilize in various applications. Here’s what they have to say.
Atlanta-based Emrgy recently opened a sales office in Boulder and hopes for much more work in Western states and provinces. Using satellite technology, Emrgy has mapped and evaluated 15,000 miles of irrigation canals in 10 states, starting in California and moving east.
As part of its commitment to carbon-free electricity by 2050, Xcel Energy is modernizing Cabin Creek, a historic high-altitude, clean-energy water plant near Georgetown. The utility currently sources 27% of its electricity from renewable sources.
As the world becomes more aware of plastic, and the harm plastic is doing to the world, has grown exponentially. However, eliminating plastic entirely would require a complete lifestyle change for most consumers.
With the clean energy industry projected to expand by between 9% and 10% this year, Colorado generates enough solar energy to power 258,000 homes
Sustainability in future years will require better aligning the needs of the planet and dismantling the historical business model that dominates the marketplace.
Syntrinsic Investment Counsel (whose mission is helping people use capital to solve social challenges) is among a number of social impact focused businesses that have moved to the Cole, Clayton and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods.
The Great Plains have been hollowing out for the better part of a century, but renewable energy represents a small economic reprieve for rural Colorado.
Colorado declared it would not go along with a weakening of our national commitment to clean air and fuel efficiency or the erosion of a longstanding state prerogative to reach higher.
According to the Colorado Energy Office (CEO), the state ranks eighth in the U.S. for EV market share and seventh for per capita EV ownership.
Denver requires a flexible, pragmatic approach to developing both future and existing buildings.
