@SC Anteater Also Mines faculty and students works closely with National Renewable Energy Lab, a DOE lab in Golden:
https://www.nrel.gov
Mines will be the more challenging school for Civil and Environmental Engineering, although Colorado State
may have some good policy classes, and still OK in engineering classes.
Colorado State is well tied to semiconductor and computer industries, in Fort Collins, which sometimes hire civil engineers but not so much. (Broadcom, AMD, HP etc )