Nicholas Monck

Failed vagabond | All tweets are my own

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

To learn the right way to run a rapids, you must run it the wrong way many times.

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

No voter should be the target of intimidation or harassment, particularly not members of the military deployed or stationed away from home.

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

Re-establishing Denver-to-Craig passenger rail service should just be the starting point. Direct Denver-to-Salt Lake City rail would revive communities across northern Colorado, create jobs, and improve air quality by reducing traffic.

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[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

Convenient passenger rail will be amazing! That’s what we are planning. A just transition for communities moving away from coal production, cutting traffic and reducing pollution are some of my administration’s top priorities.

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

To solve Colorado's 100,000 unit housing shortage, cities across the state need to allow denser development by reducing burdensome #NIMBY regulations and encouraging new housing construction near transit hubs and retail via @DenverPost

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Mining Law of 1872 play an outsized role in the development of public lands - minor tweaks would put conservation and recreational on a level playing field with development and mineral extraction.

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

“[T]o promote peace and safeguard freedom, America definitely needs to be on the world stage – active and engaged… inward-looking isolationism isn’t an option” writes @alanwdowd in the @AmericanLegion’s Landing Zone

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[9NEWS Denver @9NEWS]

So it begins: First snow falls in Colorado https://t.co/ST1lcfO1RY

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, we remember the 2,977 precious lives stolen from us on 9/11 and reflect on all that was lost in the fire and ash that September morning.

The American story itself changed on this day 22 years ago. But what could not — and will not — change is the character of this nation.

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

that is invisible to the naked eye. Countless ephemeral streams in the basin only flow early in the year when the snow melts and dry out later in the summer. The ruling is troubling for water managers in the West, where wetlands act as a buffer against drought and wildfire."

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

"A major ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court this year has put Colorado’s wetlands and streams at risk by removing some of the protections historically in place under the Clean Water Act...

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

The Sackett decision ruled that a continuous surface water connection must exist between a wetland and permanent body of water for it to be eligible for protection. But many wet meadows in high mountain communities like the Gunnison Valley are fed by groundwater...

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Federal judges blocked Alabama's new congressional map after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters came close to comprising a majority. https://t.co/3IaFr9MbIh

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

Amtrak’s singular grip on transporting US rail passengers is slipping as private companies, states & the federal government look to fast trains as environmentally friendly alternatives to traffic-clogged highways, while developers promise speeds rivaling those in Europe & Asia"

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

"Two years after the infrastructure law began pumping $66 billion into the nation’s aging rail network, domestic passenger railroads are showing their greatest signs of strength in generations...

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

And such wells can be dangerous, leaching pollutants into the local environment and acting as significant sources of methane emissions."

[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

"In order to drill, oil and gas companies must put forward financial assurance in the form of bonds, which are supposed to serve as protection for the public if a company goes bankrupt or proves unable to plug its wells...

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[Nicholas Monck @NicholasMonck]

These bonding increases are meant to protect taxpayers from having to pay to plug wells that become orphaned, meaning that there is no company willing or able to take responsibility for them. There are hundreds of thousands of these wells across the country...

[Getches-Wilkinson Center @ColoLaw @CUBoulderGWC]

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court dramatically altered which waters are covered under the Clean Water Act in Sackett v. EPA. One of our Water Fellows, Andrew Teegarden, summarizes the history and potential future of WOTUS regulation.https://t.co/ewyN6G9rB7

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Sixty years ago, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom showed us what's possible when ordinary people come together to push for change. Now it’s up to all of us to protect and build on that progress, and create a better future for generations to come.