Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Climate change in Colorado encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, in the U.S. state of Colorado. In 2019 The Denver Post reported that " [i]ndividuals living in southeastern Colorado are more vulnerable to potential health effects from climate change than residents in other ...
The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
Uranium mining in Colorado, United States, goes back to 1872, when pitchblende ore was taken from gold mines near Central City, Colorado. The Colorado uranium industry has seen booms and busts, but continues to this day. Not counting byproduct uranium from phosphate, Colorado is considered to have the third largest uranium reserves of any US ...
The Rocky Flats Plant, a former U.S. nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [1] The contamination primarily resulted from two major plutonium fires in 1957 and 1969 (plutonium is ...
An environmental justice tragedy is unfolding in South Stockton and its historically underserved communities of color, 50 miles south of Sacramento along the San Joaquin River. This story has all ...
In 2016, the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) organized a $300,000 project, in conjunction with the Colorado Geological Survey, to inventory Colorado’s abandoned mines and prioritize each site’s reclamation according to current or potential environmental and human health impacts.
Headquarters. Glendale, Colorado. 39°42′16.76″N 104°56′13.23″W. / 39.7046556°N 104.9370083°W / 39.7046556; -104.9370083. Department executive. Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Executive Director. Website. cdphe .colorado .gov. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ( CDPHE) is the principal department of the Colorado ...
v. t. e. Colorado Proposition 114 (also the Reintroduction and Management of Gray Wolves Proposition, and formerly Initiative #107) was a ballot measure that was approved in Colorado in the November 2020 elections. It was a proposal to reintroduce the gray wolf back into the state.