Legislature formalized plan to bring service to 700K more households
By Noelle Phillips
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Recycling will expand across Colorado over the next six years through new curbside programs funded by corporations that create the garbage the state wants to see diverted from ...
By Jack Healy
The New York Times
LA PAZ COUNTY, Ariz.>> In Arizona’s deeply conservative La Paz County, the most urgent issue facing many voters is not inflation or illegal immigration. It is the water being pumped from under their feet.
Giant farms have turned Arizona’s remote deserts abou...
EASTERN PLAINS
By Justin Wingerter
BusinessDen
A $2 billion wind energy project near the Kansas border has prompted two lawsuits against a small Eastern Plains county: one aiming to stop it, another by the firm building it.
The Towner Energy Center, near the Kiowa County town of Towner —...
American Climate Corps Hiring Firefighters, Foresters
April 23, 2024
The first batch of various positions available across the country was advertised yesterday -- Earth Day.
By Alicia Clanton
Source Bloomberg News (TNS) Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests fro...
How will providers find millions to fix the water?
Smaller, rural water providers will pay highest costs to come into compliance with EPA’s new PFAS rules
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NAPLES, Italy>> Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.
The U.N.’s World Met...
SOLAR FUNDING
Biden announces $7B in federal grants
By Alexa St. John and Will Weissert
The Associated Press
TRIANGLE, Va.>> President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-inc...
  
SOLAR INDUSTRY
Hopes of domestic boom clouded
Surge of cheap exports from China upending U.S. clean energy sector
By Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, annou...
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PUBLISHED: April 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2024 at 9:51 a.m.
Utilities that provide drinking water to nearly 268,000 Coloradans will need tens ...
Surge of cheap exports from China upending U.S. clean energy sector
By Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, announced that it had secured more than $100 million in financing to build a $1.4 bill...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and re...
Earth Day is April 22. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Earth Day is designed to raise awareness for what humanity can do to better conserve and protect the precious natural resources we have been given. Even those who have never heard of Earth Day may already know a few things about conserving...
By Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE>> Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild...
By Wendy Keefover
Writer’s on the Range
It’s legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf’s mouth shut and paraded th...
By Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they reliably can be measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for...
NEW RULE IMPACTS 218 FACILITIES
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule advances Pre...
By Judson Jones
The New York Times
A key area of the Atlantic Ocean where hurricanes form is abnormally warm, much warmer than an ideal swimming pool temperature of about 80 degrees and on the cusp of feeling more like warm bathtub water.
These conditions were described by Benjamin Kirtman, a pro...
  
THOMPSON DIVIDE
By Elise Schmelzer
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More than a decade of advocacy by a broad coalition of Colorado conservationists, ranchers, local governments and recreationists paid off Wednesday when federal officials banned new oil a...
AVERAGE SNOWPACK
By Elise Schmelzer
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It was an average year for Colorado’s snowpack — and that’s great news.
The statewide snowpack sat at 109% of the 30-year median on Wednesday, just a few days shy of the normal peak of snowpack for the state. Every major river basin i...
  
ENVIRONMENT

By Christopher Flavelle
The New York Times
ALAMEDA, Calif.>> A little before 9 a.m. Tuesday, an engineer named Matthew Gallelli crouched on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, pulled on a pair of ear pro...
