Colorado’s indoor cannabis farms produces 30% more carbon than the state’s coal mining industry

Despite being touted as the ultimate ‘green’ crop, cannabis is having a major impact on the environment, a new study suggest. Researches at Colorado State University found in Colorado that growing the drug indoors produces more than 30 percent more greenhouse gases than the state’s coal mining industry. The team found that the larger carbon … Read more

Boston bomber sues Colorado’s ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ prison for $250,000

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal government for $250,000 over his treatment at the supermax prison in Colorado dubbed the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – because officials took away his baseball cap. In his eight-page, handwritten lawsuit that was filed in federal court on Monday, the convicted terrorist decries the confiscation of … Read more

NASA satellite image shows thick smoke and a large burn scar from Colorado’s East Troublesome Fire

A small fire ignited in central Colorado on October 12 that burned through more than 190,000 acres in just 10 days – and NASA has captured the violent scene from space. The Operational Land Image (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite snapped an image from 438 miles above the blaze that is deemed the state’s … Read more