How $500M in federal infrastructure money is being spent in Colorado

The largest Colorado award was $167 million for a new Energy and Minerals Research Center being built at the Colorado School of Mines.
November 6, 2023

Opinion: Protect access to wilderness climbing opportunities

Drew Ruana, a professional rock climber and a student at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the proposed Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act and climbing provisions of the America’s Outdoor Recreation Act.
October 4, 2023

Opinion: The need for balance in the regulation of the oil and natural gas industry

Jennifer Miskimins, professor and head of the Petroleum Engineering Department, and Jim Crompton, professor of practice of petroleum engineering, authored this opinion piece on how collaboration is the key to getting the right balance between ....
August 29, 2023

Two years after Colorado banned legacy admissions, the state’s public colleges and universities say the only real change is perception

“Legacies are still very much welcome,” said Jen Gagne, interim executive director of admissions for the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. “But the big thing is we don’t want students who don’t have those family connections thinking like ‘Oh it’s ....
August 18, 2023

Chevron’s $7.6B purchase of PDC Energy creates the biggest oil and gas company in Colorado

“This seems like a testament to the idea that the DJ can be a core U.S. position even for a company as large as CVX,” Brad Handler, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute for Public Policy, said in an email, referring to ....
May 23, 2023

Colorado gets $32 million to create carbon-stuffing hub underground at Pueblo

The hub will be located in the Pueblo area, where massive carbon emissions from two power plants and cement kiln, among other major carbon producers, may need to be stuffed underground to meet state and U.S. climate change targets.
May 18, 2023

Opinion: Colorado is writing the national blueprint on ozone control

Morgan Bazilian, Simon Lomax and Greg Clough of the Payne Institute for Public Policy authored this opinion piece on what others can learn from Colorado's rules for regulating methane and other oil and gas emissions.
May 17, 2023

Samples from Front Range oil and gas wells detect seeping natural gas, benzene and other chemicals

A 2018 study funded by the National Science Foundation, done by Colorado School of Mines researchers and some of the researchers on the NETL analysis, found a high risk of failure among wells drilled before 1980, but the risk declined in newer wells.
March 22, 2023

Colorado’s healthy snowpack promises to offer some relief for strained water supplies

From above, satellites are also tracking the total snow-covered area in Colorado, said Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines
March 14, 2023

Exxon drops plans to pursue algae for carbon capture. But researchers in Colorado press on in hunt for green fuel.

“When Exxon funded our lab, it was always about basic science,” Matthew Posewitz, a Mines chemistry professor, said. Exxon provided millions of dollars in the search and development of fast-growing algae.
March 6, 2023