John Jechura, a Colorado School of Mines professor in the chemical and biological engineering department, described a dead leg as being like a garden hose that is turned off at the spigot and has the valve closed on the nozzle.

Federal officials signaled that the proposal would come last summer and their new proposal strikes a balance between amounts of the chemicals that are safe to consume and amounts that water providers can realistically detect, Christopher Higgins, a ....

“One of my first questions, when Suncor went down, was, ‘How is DIA?'” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at Colorado School of Mines. “Is DIA in trouble?”

A hydrogen plant is critical to any refinery operation, said John Jechura, a Colorado School of Mines professor of practice who teaches a refining class.

The Department of Energy said Wednesday that Occidental Petroleum, the Colorado School of Mines and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden will collaborate on the project.

Testing equipment also often isn’t sensitive enough to detect such small, but still potentially dangerous, traces of PFAS, Timothy Strathmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, said.

“The urgency is the fact that Lake Powell is nearly out of water (threatening hydroelectric power in the West). Climate change is real and we are feeling the impacts,” said Colorado School of Mines nuclear engineer Jeff King.

“But as you have less vegetation cover and soil — as it gets drier — you expect to see greater amounts of erosion,” said Karen Berry, director of the Colorado Geological Survey. “And, we find that the types of rainfall we get have been changing due ....

A new report by the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines said companies have also cited problems with supplies of cement and workers.

Colorado School of Mines engineering students are hurling themselves into what they see as the ultimate, relevant senior project: creating an electric vehicle burly enough to endure the Baja 1000 off-road race through unforgiving Mexican desert.