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           LAKEWOOD By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A Lakewood business that sterilizes medical equipment with cancer-causing ethylene oxide must slash its air emissions after the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday told all...
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  But now mines threaten SA Native water, culture and wealth Tourists gather in the Salinas Grandes salt flats in Jujuy, Argentina. The salt flat brings income to towns through tourism and small-scale salt harvesting. PHOTOS BY RODRIGO ABD — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Image 1 of 3 ...
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Posted by on in Clean Water
  Limit water-pollution permit to Suncor Energy on Wednesday that restricts the amount of “forever chemicals” and other harmful pollutants the company’s Commerce City refinery can discharge into Sand Creek, an important source of water for drinking and agricultural irrigation in the state.&nbs...
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“Failure is not an option” in negotiations over long-term usage cuts, federal official says By ELISE SCHMELZER |  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: March 7, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: March 7, 2024 at 6:03 a.m.   Negotiators for the s...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT “A very dangerous future” By Seth Borenstein and Tammy Webber The Associated Press Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government r...
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U.S. WILDFIRE RISK Study finds grassland fires more common, destructive By Nadja Popovich The New York Times Forest fires may get more attention, but a new study reveals that grassland fires are more widespread and destructive across the United States. Almost every year since 1990, the study fou...
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WILDCAT LOADOUT EXPANSION Project raises new alarms of oil along Colorado River   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A proposed railway project that would bring a surge in the amount of oil transported along the Colorado River is on hold, but Colorado communities and lawmakers are now concerned abou...
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         Nation says it can fight climate change and be major oil producer   By Suman Naishadham and Victor Caivano The Associated Press FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA>> During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and pine forest in northwestern Canada...
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    By Biswajeet Banerjee The Associated Press LUCKNOW, India>> Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali with a new Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country. Across the country, dazzling multicolored ...
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NATIVE AMERICANS Clean energy projects funded By Sophie Austin The Associated Press/ Report for America The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable energy on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, the Biden administration announced o...
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Utility to pay for Pano AI’s camera systems on 1.5M acres across its territory Utility to pay for Pano AI’s camera systems on 1.5 million acres across its territory By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Xcel Energy Colorado, which expects to spend about $180 million on wildfire prevention this ...
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By KC Becker Guest Commentary The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent Clean Air Act fuels settlement with the Suncor refinery generated questions about the settlement and the EPA’s broader efforts to improve environmental conditions at the facility and in nearby communities in Commerce City a...
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By Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley The New York Times WASHINGTON>> Six years ago, an executive from Suniva, a bankrupt solar panel manufacturer, warned a packed hearing room in Washington that competition from companies in China and Southeast Asia was causing a “bloodbath” in his industry. Mo...
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           By Seung Min Kim The Associated Press BEAR, Del.>> President Joe Biden, arguably the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan, visited a train maintenance shop in his home state of Delaware on Monday to showcase more than $16 billion in federal investments for r...
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             By Peter Eavis The New York Times For more than a century, the Panama Canal has provided a convenient way for ships to move between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, helping to speed up international trade. But a drought has left the canal without...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
By Dionne Searcey and Delger Erdenesanaa The New York Times America’s stewardship of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many places, oversight is all but nonexistent, a New York Times analysis has found. The ...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Northern New Mexico or bust — that seems to be the case for at least one Mexican gray wolf that is intent on wandering beyond the boundaries set for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America. Federal and state wild...
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U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers. By Bob Berwyn November 2, 2023  During the past year, the needl...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Last month, over 100 Amazonian river dolphins were found dead in a lake in the Brazilian Amazon. Their fate was due to a combination of heat and low water levels from what many consider to be the worst drought in the history of the Amazon.  Like other extreme weather events, the climate crisis...
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