Center News

Original article can be found at The Durango Telegraph
Originally published on June 3, 2010
By Allen Best

For just a brief period of civilization, humans have tapped the dense energy of fossil fuels. “Sweet perfume,” Carbondale’s Randy Udall, a consulting energy analyst and one of the nation’s leading activists in promoting energy sustainability, called them at a recent panel discussion in Denver. “These fossil fuels are magical.” (Read on …)

By Tom Burke and Ken Neubecker
Friday, April 10, 2009
GJ Sentinel Article

“The West is very rich in resources. The West is very rich in landscape beauty. As a result, the West is rich in contention.” “It’s not easy being rich.” — “What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy”

That truth, contained in a 2003 publication from the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, has been evident since 2007, when the Legislature ordered a fresh look at rules governing oil and gas exploration and production in Colorado.

More recently, Coloradans became painfully aware of another truism — one about too many eggs in one basket — as a booming energy economy succumbed to the demons of oversupply, low prices, comparatively high production costs and lack of pipeline capacity. (Read on …)

By Jason Hanson
March 25, 2009
Center for Native Ecosystems Essay

Extra! Extra! Americans’ changing relationship with energy is big news at last!

Energy has finally found a place at the forefront of Americans’ thoughts about our future. Growing concerns about where our energy comes from, how we use it, and the ramifications it carries for our environment, our economy, and our national security have propelled stories about energy to the top of our newscasts and the front pages of our remaining newspapers. (Read on …)

Morning Edition NPR
By Jeff Brady
March 12, 2009
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There’s a saying in the Rocky Mountain West: Oil shale has a promising future — and it always will. The Obama Administration has reversed a Bush administration policy of allowing large leases on public lands for oil shale research and development. That made environmentalists happy, but oil companies are not giving up on shale just yet.

This podcast features Center of the American West Researcher, Jason Hanson.

February 25, 2009
Public News Service – CO
By Eric Mack
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Denver – The question of balancing energy policy so that it is humane, economically sound and environmentally responsible is the gist of a report released today by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Researcher Jason Hanson says they looked at a number of “green” energy solutions and found that such balance is possible, but will take a mindful approach from lawmakers. (Read on …)

By: Business Wire
February 23, 2009
CNBC Article

The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder is releasing its latest report, “High Energy Prices & Low-Income Americans, Reducing the Risk of Unintended Injury” at a Tuesday evening reception in Denver. Energy Outreach Colorado funded and provided information for the report, which outlines the challenge of transitioning to a “new energy economy” while avoiding a negative impact on lower-income households’ ability to afford home energy. (Read on …)

Kirk Siegler
February 23, 2009
KUNC – Public News Room Audio

LISTEN TO WILLET KEMPTON’S INTERVIEW
BOULDER, CO (2009-02-20) University of Delaware Professor and wind energy expert Willet Kempton is visiting the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West this week. Professor Kempton is out to rebuke popular assertions that the United States is a long way off from transitioning to a renewable-energy based system. He also sat down for an interview with KUNC’s Kirk Siegler.

University of Colorado
News Center Press Release
February 5, 2009

The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West will host a talk by a national leader in the cause of renewable energy, University of Delaware Associate Professor Willett Kempton, on Feb. 19.

The talk titled “What Most Analysts Tell You About Renewable Energy is Wrong: Rethinking Energy, Power and Policy in the Context of Climate Change,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150 on the CU-Boulder campus. (Read on …)

The Colorado Statesman article
Vol. 110, No. 4
By Janet Simons
01/23/2009

On Inauguration Day, Ken Salazar became the 50th U.S. secretary of the Department of the Interior and the sixth Coloradan to serve in the post.

Until now, Colorado has been tied with Ohio and Illinois, each of which contributed five Interior secretaries to the United States.

With Salazar — who is the first Interior secretary born in Colorado — the Centennial State becomes the champion state for providing Interior secretaries. (Read on …)

… from the Obama administration

The Denver Post
Various Authors
December 7, 2008

The Denver Post asked a diverse stable of Westerners to add their voices to the chorus of Americans who have advice for President-elect Barack Obama. Top row, left to right: John Hickenlooper, Cleo Parker Robinson, Norma Anderson, Jeff S. Fard. Middle row: Dottie Lamm, Gary Hart, Federico Pena, Brian Schweitzer, Tucker Hart Adams. Bottom row: Al Simpson, Andrew Romanoff, Bill Owens, Patty Limerick. (Read on …)