By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it...
By Max Bearak
The New York Times
When the Biden administration greenlighted the $8 billion Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope last month, many decried the move as a betrayal of the United States’ pledge to move away from fossil fuels in the fight against climate change.
But an analysis of...
By Lisa Friedman
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> In one of its most consequential climate decisions, the Biden administration is planning to greenlight an enormous $8 billion oil drilling project in the North Slope of Alaska, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Alaska lawmak...
By Lynsey Chutel and John Eligon
The New York Times
PHOLA, SOUTH AFRICA >>
Dozens of cattle farmers swarmed the excavator clawing into a green pasture in South Africa’s coal belt, shouting a threat to the man behind the controls: Stop digging, or they would topple the machine.
They were de...
At just 57% recovery, Greeley is only metro area that has yet to bounce back
By Judith Kohler
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Nearly three years after the start of the pandemic, Greeley is the only one of Colorado’s metro areas whose economy hasn’t fully recovered, and the reason might be the same one for...
By Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
BERLIN>> Insurance companies that have long said they will cover anything at the right price increasingly are ruling out fossil fuel projects because of climate change — to cheers from environmental campaigners.
More than a dozen groups that track what ...
By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press
KIRTLAND, N.M. » The clamor of second-graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work.At Judy Nelson El...
OIL, GAS LEASES
Climate damage will get new look
Settlement involves government land in N.D., Montana
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration reached a legal settlement Tuesday that requires the government to reexamine potential climate damages from oil ...
By Janet McConnaughey
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS » The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority derelict oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land, the department said Thursday.
It said up to 10,000 wells could be dealt with...
By Matthew Brown and Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a ...
By John Leicester and Nicholas Garriga
The Associated Press
PARIS » Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights.
Click. Click. Click. One by one, the o...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration announced Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands but also would raise the federal royalties that companies must pay to drill, which would be the first increase in thos...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Xcel Energy’s chronically troubled Comanche 3 coalfired power plant might be closed earlier than the 2034 retirement date in the utility’s proposed energy resource plan.
The fate of Comanche 3 is one of the issues Xcel Energy hopes to resolve with organiza...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A drilling proposal that was seen as one of the first big tests of recent sweeping changes to state oil and gas rules has failed to earn the approval of state regulators.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted 4-1 Thursday against plans by Kerr-McG...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change.
The admini...
Colorado will get nearly $10 million from the federal government to combat abandoned coal mine fires, officials announced this week.
The decision comes after authorities say they are investigating abandoned coal mines as a possible cause to the Dec. 30 fire that burned more than 1,100 homes...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado can expect tens of millions from the federal government to plug and restore hundreds of orphaned oil and gas wells out of the bipartisan infrastructure bill that Congress passed last year, government officials said.
In all, the infrastructure bil...
Measure introduced in 2020 after years of residents’ complaints
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » The University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles has a lot in common with urban areas across the U.S.: A dense population with lots of businesses and housing. A cluster of car dealers...
WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites.
Plants in four...
Rules target gas emissions
Policy to shift dollars from road projects to alternate modes of transit
By Noelle Phillips and Jon Murray
The Denver Post
The Colorado Transportation Commission approved new rules Thursday that aim to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases spewed into t...
