SLOW JAMMING THE NEWS: Is the EPA Planning a San Juan Land Grab?

After a week of heart-breaking news, we’re giving PeakNation™ a break this morning and bringing to your attention this fluffy story lede submitted by our favorite environmental reporter, Bruce Finley. Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday...

GUIILTY! EPA Blamed for Mine Spill

There are times when we cannot improve upon perfection. This is one of those times: BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine,...

PLEASE DON’T: Bennet Rearranges Deck Chairs on the EPA Titanic

Folks on the Western Slope can rest easy now, as Front Range lawmakers have stepped up to save the day and right the wrongs of the EPA’s disastrous Animas River spill by giving the feds more power to wreak havoc. Led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and his...

WATER GRAB: Gardner Legislates to Stop ‘Waters of the U.S.’ Rule

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has joined efforts in D.C. to put a stop to that ridiculous new rule out of Washington regulating the ditches in our front yards, ponds in the back, and probably every mud puddle in between. The grandiose scheme to obliterate state sovereignty...

MORE BLOWOUTS IN COLORADO? Tipton Nails EPA on Transparency Bunk

We told you earlier this week that the EPA had identified ten mines nationwide, four in Colorado, that are at risk of a blowout. However, those transparent folks at the EPA would not tell us where the mines were located except perhaps one near Crested Butte. Turns out...