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...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
A directive issued Thursday by the Biden administration would, for the first time, have federal agencies consider the economic damage caused by climate change when deciding what kinds of vehicles, equipment and goods to buy.
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By Marcy Gordon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the go...
President Joe Biden has chosen Boulder’s KC Becker, the recent speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, for a top job in the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a news release Thursday, the White House announced Biden intends to appoint Becker to be administrator of the EPA’s Regio...
By Alan Fram and Zeke Miller
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to...
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden tried on Friday to hammer out the world’s next steps against rapidly worsening climate change with a small group of other global leaders and announced a new U.S.-European pledge to cut climate-wrecki...
By Justin Wingerter
The Denver Post
America cannot wait any longer to make large investments in clean energy and combat climate change, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in Jefferson County.
“Climate change is here today, not next year or 10 years from now. We have to make changes to slow climate ...
U.N.: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall
By Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten
The Associated Press
GENEVA » Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency ...
The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota’s delicate watersheds, urging in a court brief that a challenge brought by local tribes and environmental groups be thrown out.
The closely watched filing ...