Author: Matthew Brown
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3,800 Colorado workers are on strike at JBS, one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — About 3,800 workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants went on strike Monday in Colorado in what union representatives said was the first walkout at a U.S. beef slaughterhouse in four decades. Hundreds of strikers picketed in front of the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, owned by JBS…
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Judge blocks Trump from easing energy rules in Colorado, other western states
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from easing rules on mining, drilling and grazing across millions of acres in Colorado and six other Western states, saying such activities left unchecked were likely to harm a struggling bird species. The ground-dwelling greater sage…
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BLM acting boss: Past support for US land sales is ‘irrelevant’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A newly appointed Trump administration official with ties to Colorado said his past support for selling federal lands was “irrelevant,” after his selection to oversee an agency managing nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West drew a backlash. Acting Bureau of Land Management…