DURANGO, Colorado, April 4 -- The Conservation Lands Foundation issued the following statement on April 3, 2024: * * * Today, the Biden-Harris administration finalized protections for the Thompson Divide area in central Colorado, a cherished landscape in the state, fulfilling the president's commitment under his designation of the Camp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument. Statement from Charlotte Overby, Vice President of Conservation Field Programs for the Conservation Lands Foundati  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 4 (TNSres) -- National Jewish Health, a respiratory hospital, issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: Since the conflicts that followed 9/11 in 2001, military veterans deployed to areas in Southwest Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa have been developing respiratory diseases caused by inhaling particulate matter linked to their deployment locations and job duties. New research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and P  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 4 -- The National Wildlife Federation issued the following news release: The Biden Administration's 20-year mineral withdrawal in the Thompson Divide in western Colorado will prohibit oil and gas leasing and mining on 225,000 acres of public lands that are home to abundant wildlife, including elk, deer, moose, bears, and lynx. The withdrawal follows more than a decade of advocacy by local residents, business leaders, conservationists, and ranchers. "The mineral withdraw  more

BASALT, Colorado, April 4 -- Rocky Mountain Institute issued the following news release: * * * The Carbon Action Network provides a community of practice for homebuilders to learn about embodied carbon and adopt sustainable construction practices using materials that are climate-smart and cost-competitive. * * * Today, RMI (founded as Rocky Mountain Institute) is proud to announce the launch of HomebuildersCAN (Homebuilders Carbon Action Network). Developed with an industry stakeholder group  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on April 3, 2024: * * * Today, the Biden Administration announced new protections for critical public lands in Colorado. An order issued by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland protects more than 200,000 acres of Colorado landscapes known as the Thompson Divide from oil and gas development and other extraction for 20 years. It also follows through on a commitment President Biden made when he designated Camp Hale-Continental Divide  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: The Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration just announced $17.6 million in grants to 20 communities in 16 states to invest in transit-oriented development (TOD). The funding, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will support local strategies to increase transit access and encourage ridership through mixed-use and mixed-income housing near public transportation projects. Each of the s  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 4 -- Trout Unlimited issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that nearly 225,000 acres of public land in the Thompson Divide has been withdrawn from all forms of mineral entry, appropriation, and disposal for the next twenty years. "The Thompson Divide is home to the headwaters of some of Colorado's most storied trout streams including the Roaring Fork, the  more