Chase Woodruff

Xcel Energy said Unit 3 of its Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo will cease operations by Jan. 1, 2031, four years earlier than previously agreed and decades ahead of the plant’s original retirement date.

The poll found that Coloradans are more concerned on average about the threat of climate change than voters nationwide, with 57% agreeing that rising global temperatures are “having a massive impact on my community,” and 55% worrying that the state won’t “have enough water to meet its needs in 100 years.”

Amid a rapid worsening of Western conditions in 2020 and 2021, the dry spell that has gripped the Colorado River Basin for the last 22 years is now the region’s worst drought since at least 800 A.D., researchers concluded in a study published this week.

President Joe Biden’s administration will return the headquarters of the BLM to Washington, D.C., reversing a controversial decision by the Trump administration to relocate the office to Grand Junction, Colorado.