Christopher Caskey News Today

Is burning methane leaking from old coal mines in the Crystal River Valley worth unraveling restoration work in Coal Basin?

Declining emissions at Elk Creek facility refocus project on destroying dangerous gas

The project in White River National Forest is the first step toward capturing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and converting it to fuel.

What's better than Colorado companies manufacturing their own products? Doing that, and more, for a great cause.

Particular Tile makes hand-cut ceramic tile with a sustainable twist.

One morning in late September, a group of people gathered at a trail head in Coal Basin, near the town of Redstone, for a hike into the Elk Mountains. The weather was moody; wispy clouds…

The group — various stakeholders from the environmental, business, political, mining and energy worlds — had assembled at the invitation of Christopher Caskey, a Paonia-based scientist and entrepreneur, to witness a troubling phenomenon: invisible clouds of methane leaking out of five old coal mines that once operated in Coal Basin.