Posts tagged Environmental Law

• Group Seeks to Protect Wild Buckwheat

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, environmental groups including the Uncompahgre Valley Association are requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service make increasing efforts to protect the Clay Loving Wild Buckwheat, an endangered plant that grows only in Delta and Montrose Counties. The groups ask that the protected areas for this plant increase to include all of the Gunnison...

• Grand Junction Solar Power Potential

  Staff Writer | July 07, 2006 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As officials in Grand Junction continue to push for oil shale development, Fred Pittenger, owner of the company Simplicity Solar, is looking to help people deal with rising fuel prices through another form of energy, solar power. According to an article in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Mr. Pittenger believes that solar power could be the future of Grand Junction energy as an organization...

• City Officials Plug for Oil Shale Development

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2006 7:13 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Members of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce and Club 20 are calling for oil shale development to proceed in Western Colorado in a "thoughtful and deliberate manner." Kathy Hall of Club 20, a coalition of counties, says that this time "we want to see long-term, sustainable jobs."