A group of Colorado Sheriffs attempt to change gun laws in the state was shot down by an appeals court yesterday. The sheriff’s were challenging the 2013 laws that put a limit on the size of magazines and also expanded background Continue reading
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Sheriffs’ Attempt To Change Gun Laws Shot Down
Jewell to Meet with Commissioners Tonight
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will meet with Moffat County Commissioners tonight in Glenwood Springs. Jewell is taking a rafting trip in Glenwood, and has agreed to meet with the commissioners over the ColoWyo Mine lawsuit. Jewell refused to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the Office of Surface Mining redo an Environmental Assessment for the mine’s South Continue reading
Lawmakers Express Disappointment No Appeal was Filed in ColoWyo Case
Yesterday, Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) and Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) sent Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell a follow-up letter expressing disappointment with the Interior Department’s Continue reading
Interior Department Lets Appeal Deadline Pass
Yesterday’s deadline for the Interior Department to file for an appeal of a judge’s ruling against the Office of Surface Mining over an extraction permit issued to ColoWyo Coal Mine nearly a decade ago has come and gone. The OSM is preparing a new Environmental Assessment of the South Taylor Pit, after the judge said the Continue reading
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OSM Has Until Tonight to File Appeal in ColoWyo Case
Today is the last day the Interior Department has to file an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that has put the future of ColoWyo Coal Mine in jeopardy. A judge ruled that the Office of Surface Mining didn’t do enough to consider burning coal, when it approved the mine’s South Taylor Permit. Tri-State Continue reading
ColoWyo Files for Stay of Ruling
Colowyo has filed a motion for a stay pending appeal of the ruling against the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) in a lawsuit challenging the mining permits issued for the mine. The request for a stay asks for operations at the mine to continue Continue reading
Tipton Talks ColoWyo
Representative Scott Tipton talked with Wild West Radio Friday about the situation facing ColoWyo Coal Mine. Tipton says he and other lawmakers have written letters to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, and have talked with her staff. He says at this point they are pressing upon two main issues; whether or not an appeal is Continue reading
Hickenlooper Latest to Send Letter to Jewell over ColoWyo
Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest to send his thoughts to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell regarding the recent decision against the Office of Surface Mining that is threatening to shut down ColoWyo Coal Mine. A federal judge ruled the mine’s latest expansion project did not gather enough public input on the environmental impacts of the project, which took place eight Continue reading
Clerks Ordered to Stop Issuing Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples
More than 1,000 same-sex married couples in Utah must wait longer for state benefits after the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state a stay on an order requiring it to recognize the marriages. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued the Continue reading
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Colorado Judge Rules Against Gay Marriage Ban
A Colorado judge has struck down the state’s gay marriage ban, making him the 16th judge to invalidate a state’s prohibition on same-sex marriages in the past year. District Judge C. Scott Crabtree put his ruling on hold pending Continue reading
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Hundreds Show up to ColoWyo Meeting in Craig
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