Vail Daily, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 3, 2020
Vail Resorts reports the company has taken a major step toward its goal of 100% renewable electricity as a new large-scale wind farm, enabled by the company, has gone online. Vail Resorts has committed to purchase 310,000 megawatt hours of win...
By Joe Neguse, Guest Commentary, The Denver Post eEdition, July 1, 2020
Last summer, Washington heard directly from Coloradans when the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis traveled to Colorado for the committee’s first — and only — official bipartisan field hearing. Committee members ...
By Matthew Daly, The Associated Press, The Denver Post eEdition, July 1, 2020
WASHINGTON» House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a plan to address climate change that would set a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while pushing renewable energy such as wind and solar power and addressi...
The Associated Press, The Denver Post eEdition, July 6, 2020 NAIROBI, KENYA»The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation is now finding its wings for proper flight. The li...
By Dave Kolpack, AP News, July 6, 2020
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered the Dakota Access pipeline shut down for additional environmental review more than three years after it began pumping oil — handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and delivering a blow to President Donal...
The guidelines Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada use and a drought contingency plan will expire in 2026. By Felicia Fonseca, The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, June 28th, 2020
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.» Arizona is getting a jump start on what will be ...
By Tom Udall and Michael Bennet, The Denver Post eEdition, June 28th, 2020
Westerners have a special connection to the land. We are blessed with millions of acres of gorgeous and untamed beauty—snow-covered peaks, alpine lakes, mountain streams, wide open rural landscapes, and abundant wildlife. Th...
By, Kiley Price, Conservation International, Jan 15, 2020
The top five risks to the global economy in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, published today, are environmental — a first in the survey’s history. And with “economic and political polarization” set to increase in 2020, the onu...
Shared from the 6/27/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Maggie Michael
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The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or explosion, causing massive environmental d...
Shared from the 6/28/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Jim Robbins
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CUT BANK, MONT.» A century ago, one of the first of the ambitious federal water projects that helped build the West was constructed to carry water from the mountains of Glacier National Park hundreds of ...
Shared from the 6/24/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
CLIMATE CHANGE
Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% However, company says rate fell 5% per $1 spent on website By Joseph Pisani The Associated Press
NEW YORK»Amazon said Tuesday that its carbon footprint rose 15% last y...
Shared from the 6/19/2020 The Denver Post eEdition PREMATURE BIRTHS By Christopher Flavelle
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WASHINGTON» Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature, underweight or stillborn, and African-American...
The Denver Post eEdition, By Gillian Friedman, June 20, 2020 © The New York Times Co.
Friday was a paid company holiday for employees at Nike. The same goes for workers at Twitter, Target, General Motors, the National Football League and a variety of other businesses. JPMorgan Chase, Capital O...
The Lancet, Planetary Health Volume 4, Issue 6, E212-E216, Published June 01, 2020 By Evan A Eskew and Colin J Carlson
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will be among the most significant global health crises of several generations. The causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coron...
The Denver Post eEdition, Judith Kohler, June 17, 2020 Colorado and the country continue to lose clean energy jobs by the thousands since the coronavirus began spreading, a national industry group said Monday.
A new analysis by E2, Environmental Entrepreneurs, said the industry lost 27,000 job...
The New Yorker, By Bill McKibben, June 9, 202,
Most weeks, we talk about how to save the world, which seems the only accurate way to put it, given that we’ve just lived through the hottest May in recorded history and that the carbon-dioxide levels in our atmosphere just hit a new high, unmatc...
The Denver Post eEdition, By The Associated Press, June 17, 2020 HELENA, MONT.» The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a permit program that would allow the disputed Keystone XL pipeline and other new oil and gas pipelines to cross waterways with little review.
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Women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies, a look at 32 million U.S. births found.
The New York Times, By Christopher Flavelle, June 18, 2020 WASHINGTON — Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution a...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post, 6-18-2020
The Platte River Power Authority said Tuesday that it will retire a coal-fired power plant by 2030, 16 years earlier than planned.
The closure of the Rawhide Unit 1 northwest of Wellington and the end of Platte River’s ownership interest when a power pla...
Shared by The Denver Post, 6-18-2020 By Michael Liedtke
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The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric’s long-neglected equipment vilified the company Wednesday as greedy, corrupt and reckless, telli...
