About Environment Colorado
We’re your state environmental group: protecting the places we love, advancing the environmental values we share, winning real results for our environment. Click here to donate now.
Who we are
Environment Colorado is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas and tough-minded advocacy to overcome the opposition of powerful special interests and win real results for Colorado's environment. Environment Colorado draws on 30 years of success in tackling our state's top environmental problems.
Whether it’s exploring Rocky Mountain National Park, hiking Dolores Canyon, or enjoying a special place closer to home, Colorado’s natural wonders enrich our lives in countless ways. Yet the places we love and the values we share are too often threatened.
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OUR STAFF
Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center
What We Do
We research the issues and educate the public about what’s at stake. Through our reports, news conferences and interviews with reporters, we help the media cover environmental issues in ways that make sense. Our canvassers meet citizens where they are — starting conversations in public places or going to door-to-door — explaining our mission while raising awareness and funds for environmental protection.
When decisions are being made about our environment, our elected officials hear plenty from the oil companies, developers and other powerful interests. We speak up for our environment, making our case to public officials and helping you make your voice heard when it matters most. From anglers to white-water enthusiasts, clergy to scientists, families to business owners, we all have a stake in a cleaner, healthier future. That’s why tens of thousands of people are members of Environment Colorado.
Become a memberJoin thousands of your friends and neighbors in protecting our air, water and open spaces by becoming a member of Environment Colorado through our monthly giving program or by making a one-time contribution today.
The charts below represent the combined financial information of Environment Colorado and the Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center.
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Putting your support to work
- Clean Air, Healthy Families. When you get up into the mountains, or away from the road for a picnic, it's hard to imagine anything but clean air in Colorado. But a brown cloud still hovers over Denver, and tens of thousands of Coloradans suffer from asthma. Last year, in our fight for clean air and healthy families, we were part of a national coalition that collected more than 3 million public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency to urge decision-makers to create strong carbon pollution standards for new coal-fired power plants here in Colorado and across the country.
- Colorado Rivers Project. We love our rivers for rafting and for wildlife, and some of the bravest among us will even jump in and swim in them. The vitality of these rivers we love depends on the health of their headwaters, and in Colorado, 75,000 miles of streams that feed into our rivers are no longer protected under the Clean Water Act. In 2012, we talked to tens of thousands of Coloradans about protecting our beautiful waters, thousands took action, and more than 100 local elected officials took a stand with us for our rivers.
- Preserving Our Heritage. Our geologic history winds through its cracks, and its humbling views remind us why we protect beautiful, unique places. The Grand Canyon should never be put at risk, so when we heard toxic uranium mines were encroaching on its boarders—threatening to degrade the land and contaminate drinking water supplies—we took action. Hundreds of thousands called on the Obama administration to protect this national landmark, and after months of hard work, they listened.
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