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The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a final rule that requires companies to control air emissions at oil and gas wells that are drilled using the process of hydraulic fracturing.

What happens when a county wants to take over land from a city, and that city resists? It’s a question that has been playing out between Jefferson County and Golden for decades. And now the battle has escalated all the way to the Colorado State House.

The U.S. Forest Service is considering using explosives to dispose of a half-dozen frozen cows that died after getting stuck inside a cabin about nine miles from Aspen.

The U.S. Forest Service says it’s weighing options when it comes to renewing a closure of caves and abandoned mines in Colorado and four other states. The news comes as one environmental group is calling for even more closures in the West to prevent the spread of White Nose Syndrome, which has killed millions of bats on the East Coast.

Today is Equal Pay Day in Colorado. April 17th marks the day a woman’s annual earnings catch up to what men earned in 2011. Nationally women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. And in Colorado, that pay gap stretches to 79 cents.