Water is life. This is especially true in the arid western United States. The survival of crops, livestock and people is dependent on its existence. In the late 1800s, settlers
Water is life. This is especially true in the arid western United States. The survival of crops, livestock and people is dependent on its existence. In the late 1800s, settlers
One morning in late September, a group of people gathered at a trail head in Coal Basin, near the town of Redstone, for a hike into the Elk Mountains. The weather was moody; wispy clouds…
The group various stakeholders from the environmental, business, political, mining and energy worlds had assembled at the invitation of Christopher Caskey, a Paonia-based scientist and entrepreneur, to witness a troubling phenomenon: invisible clouds of methane leaking out of five old coal mines that once operated in Coal Basin.