Two progressive Denver Democrats are backing an effort to ban the purchase and transfer of semi-automatic weapons in Colorado, a second attempt after a similar bill died in committee last year.
A significantly pared-down version of Gov. Tina Kotek’s signature housing bill cleared a Senate committee, suggesting lawmakers are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on housing and homelessness.
The politicians say the new national monument near the Grand Canyon wasn’t created to preserve sacred Native American land and protect the ecosystem as the president proclaimed, but instead to halt mining operations.
Regional planners in the mountain resort area approved a new plan in December that would allow for taller, denser construction in town centers, but conservationists say the planners did not conduct a proper environmental review.
The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday to grant the little-known Sierra Nevada red fox protection under the Endangered Species Act.