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Agency reports targets in reach via wind, solar power By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado’s power companies can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 98.5% by 2040 without new government policies or programs that would increase costs to consumers, according to a new modeling r...
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           Backyard lawns safe, but draft bill proposes prohibition on new ornamental grasses By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Coloradans might have to say goodbye to verdant green medians full of grass if state lawmakers succeed in a plan to save water b...
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Posted by on in Animals
By Katrina Miller The New York Times The American Ornithological Society, the organization responsible for standardizing English bird names across the Americas, announced Wednesday it would rename all species honoring people. Bird names derived from people, the society said in a statement, can be ...
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Posted by on in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands
           By Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS>> The heating element removed from Monique Plaisance’s water heater in September was disintegrating, streaked with rust and covered in a dry crust. She blamed the corrosion on the wa...
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         The short-term crisis averted; here’s what’s at stake in negotiations for its long-term future  By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. An immediate crisis on the Colorado River has been averted, but negotiators now must turn their attention to the next pro...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
CRITICAL MINERALS The controversy about the industrialized extraction of seabed minerals was put to rest for the time being as the governing council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) agreed to take two more years to finalize mining regulations. The ISA, established by the U.N. as an ...
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NEW LAW ABOUT TO KICK IN By Suzie Romig Pilot & Today Owners of retail businesses and food and drink establishments likely are carefully considering their orders for disposable containers and carryout bags this fall as a statewide ordinance will kick in Jan. 1 to ban carryout plastic bags and...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
By Clifford Krauss The New York Times Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the two largest U.S. oil companies, this month committed to spending more than $50 billion each to buy smaller companies in deals that would let them produce more oil and natural gas for decades to come. But a day after Chevron announ...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. In a move regulators said shows they are serious about making the oil and gas industry clean up after itself, the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission rejected a company’s plan for financing its cleanup costs. The ECMC unanimously voted against ...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
By Lisa Friedman The New York Times Of all of the efforts by the Biden administration to protect environmentally fragile lands, few have generated as much vitriol as a proposal that would block oil and gas drilling on 1.6 million acres of high desert sagebrush steppe in Wyoming. One lawmaker in t...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
Environmental regulators announced new grants to help researchers investigate how harmful PFAS affect plants and animals in agricultural environments.   By Liza Gross October 30, 2023   The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday $8 million in new research funding t...
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Print         AIR POLLUTION Nonprofits struggle to roll out programs One turned down a $500,000 EPA grant, calling rules burdensome By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Black Parents United Foundation learned in late 2022 that it would receive nearly $475,00...
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             One of longest-running Superfund sites in Colorado still has no radioactive waste cleanup plan   By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. CAÑON CITY>> Jeri Fry was 6 years old when she toured the uranium mill outside town where he...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
ENVIRONMENT   By Remy Tumin The New York Times Over the past decade, the sunflower sea star has gone from a mighty predator of the Pacific Ocean floor to nearing extinction. The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5.75 billion sunflower sea stars died over the span of three years, a 94% globa...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  The 28th meeting of the International Seabed Authority resumed this July with two weeks of Council meetings and one week of Assembly meetings. The Ocean Foundation was on the ground for all three weeks to raise our topline messages on finance and liability, underwater cultural heritage, tran...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Patrick Whittle The Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine>> Whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice volumes associated with climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind assessment. Resear...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Oregon will provide up to 10 animals this winter, Parks and Wildlife says By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Oregon will provide the first gray wolves for Colorado’s voter-mandated reintroduction of the species, wildlife officials announced Friday after a months-long search for a state ...
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By Edmar Barros The Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil>> Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s surface....
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Larry and Mary Bosaw, who live near Fort Lupton, have something in common with municipal officials and landowners in Frederick and Dacono as well as state regulators: They want K.P. Kauffman Co. to take care of the problems created by its oil and gas operati...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
             By Todd Richmond The Associated Press David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago’s lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. On Thursday morning he found something horrible: Hundreds of dead songbirds, so thick they look...
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