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Boulder climate activists call on city to sever ties with insurers backing...
Local climate activists gathered in front of the City of Boulder municipal building downtown on Thursday, Feb. 29, urging the city to to cut ties with insurance companies investing in or insuring...
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Boulder County holds public meeting on Valmont Power Station’s toxic coal ash...
Boulder County has begun a series of meetings with residents living by the Valmont Power Station to address concerns about the toxic coal ash being stored in an inactive landfill and seeping into...
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In apparent first, Xcel Energy adapted its power grid to cut wildfire risk...
Over the weekend during red flag warnings, about 200,000 Xcel Energy Colorado customers received notifications about their electricity status. Because of the blustery wind conditions and low moisture,...
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Boulder ‘exploring options’ following calls to part ways with fossil...
Climate activists gathered in front of the City of Boulder’s Penfield Tate Municipal Building last week to urge the city to rethink its insurance providers. In a letter to city staff, the activists...
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All-electric Pearl Street Mall? Boulder weighs retiring decaying gas line in...
Under six blocks of brick in the heart of the Pearl Street Mall lies an aging gas line deemed a safety risk. Replacing the line would mean ripping up brick from 11th to 15th Streets, or much of the...
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‘A level of danger that was uncomfortable’: Enduring 80 hours without power...
Pat Thomas lives in Sugarloaf off Millionaire Drive, where she’s been since 1992. She understands the demands of mountain living. But the snowstorm last week, and the subsequent power outage that...
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‘A very long road’: Boulder City Council greenlights open space use for flood...
The Boulder City Council has unanimously approved using 4.1 acres of city open space land for flood mitigation near the controversial CU South property along South Boulder Creek. The vote brings the...
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How Boulder’s potential gas ban in new homes and buildings would impact you...
Boulder is edging closer to following in the footsteps of two other Colorado cities, Lafayette and Crested Butte, in banning natural gas in new construction. The Boulder City Council completed a first...
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Xcel’s power cut may have prevented a wildfire. It also left critical Boulder...
Over the weekend, with forecasts predicting potentially dangerous wind gusts nearing 100 miles per hour in Boulder, the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless made special arrangements to sleep more people....
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Why did your neighbor have power and you didn’t? Boulder’s grid complexity...
Boulder County residents may have differing opinions about whether Xcel Energy should have cut power on April 6 to lessen wildfire risk. But there’s widespread agreement that the situation was marred...
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Boulder power outage: Some residents were left without electricity for nearly...
Xcel Energy’s preemptive power outage last weekend left more than 35,500 City of Boulder customers without electricity, city manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde told city councilmembers on Thursday, April...
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City emails during Xcel power outage reveal widespread confusion and...
Editor’s note: Boulder Reporting Lab compiled a timeline of events from April 5-7, 2024, during Xcel Energy’s preemptive power outage, based on city officials’ emails and interviews with Joe...
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Boulder City Council urges Xcel to compensate customers for financial losses...
Members of the Boulder City Council on Thursday told representatives from Xcel Energy that the utility should reimburse customers for financial losses incurred during the planned power outage earlier...
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Are microgrids the key to combating Xcel Energy’s wildfire-driven power...
Xcel Energy, which shut down power for the first time on April 6 in Colorado to prevent wildfires, may do so again amid increasing fire risk. The sudden outage affected 35,000 people in the City of...
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Power outage at Boulder wastewater plant sparks questions about Xcel’s...
When Xcel Energy cut power to Boulder County’s electric grid on April 6, it also knocked out power to the City of Boulder’s wastewater treatment plant. This triggered a scramble by city officials to...
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Some Boulder City Councilmembers push for immediate wildfire-smart...
When Boulder City Councilmembers met last month to set priorities, limiting flammable landscaping and building materials to protect residents and their homes was one of them. But when city staff...
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Apply to transform free flood-ravaged land in Boulder County into a...
Boulder County is looking to give away land it acquired after the 2013 floods, but with strings attached. Until June 30, residents can apply for vacant property the county took ownership of after the...
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City officials recommend against Boulder ban on gas-powered landscaping tools
City officials are recommending against any new regulations on gas-powered leaf blowers and other landscaping tools to the Boulder City Council. After several years of examining the environmental and...
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Boulder City Council moves to ban gas in new buildings, aligning with climate...
The Boulder City Council has moved closer to adopting a new energy conservation code that would ban gas in most new construction. The code now appears likely to go into effect in December 2024....
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Geothermal heat pumps: Another way to electrify your Boulder home, but cost...
Homeowners nationwide are turning to climate-friendly ways to heat and cool their homes, moving away from gas furnaces in record numbers. Boulder County is also embracing this trend. Last year, over...
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