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A report released Friday by Congress' nonpartisan watchdog agency says federal officials do not have a firm grasp on the thousands of abandoned and potentially dangerous mines on its land.
The Government Accountability Office study says some of the mines hold the potential for human and environmental health risks.
WASHINGTON -- Federal laboratories working with bioterror pathogens are "the leading offenders" that have repeatedly been referred for sanctions because of safety violations, yet regulators from the Department of Health and Human Services have largely responded with violation letters, according to documents released by Congressional watchdogs for a hearing on lab safety Tuesday.
On July 23, House and Senate Democrats introduced a landmark bill that would see non-discrimination protections extended to the LGBT community on a federal level. Titled the Equality Act, the bill has a very close Colorado connection, with US Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) being one of its key original co-sponsors.
An effort to designate 32 areas as wilderness across Colorado was launched again in Washington on Wednesday.
The Colorado Wilderness Act was introduced by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and it could protect two large areas in Montezuma County, with support from local officials.
Legislation would add 325 acres of land near Maroon Bells area to wilderness
Congresswoman Diana DeGette has reintroduced a bill that aims to designate 715,000 acres in 32 areas in Colorado as wilderness including 325 acres adjacent to the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness west of Aspen, and another 21,900 acres south of Carbondale.
Nearly 200 labs around the world have received live anthrax, according to Defense Department testimony before Congress on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Forest Service completes a 5-year Roadless Area Review and Evaluation process (RARE I), which found that all the USFS lands within Browns Canyon and surrounding areas, tallying tens of thousands of acres, are suitable to be designated as wilderness.
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On a Thursday evening in early July, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton came to the well of the House floor with a poster-board photograph of himself with two smiling blonde girls.
BUENA VISTA — Like a whitewater rafting trip down the Arkansas River, the dedication ceremony Saturday for Browns Canyon National Monument hit a few rough patches along the way.
Advances in biomedical and pharmaceutical research continue to occur at a dizzying pace. Yet the process of moving these discoveries out of the lab and into the real world where they can benefit people is frustratingly slow.