By Michael Brune
Guest Commentary
Last year, Coloradans suffered in the face of an exceptionally dry summer that birthed the worst fires in the state’s history.
For millennia, natural wildfires have played a role in balancing the landscape, but climate change has created the condi...
Denver Water removes decades-old toxic service lines faster than expected
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Tens of thousands of Denver residents drink, bathe in and cook with water that comes in through lead service lines.
Denver Water crews are moving as fast as a public utility that serves 1....
Article from: Denver Post - June 11, 2021
THE OPEN FORUM
Dan Danbom, Denver
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that carbon dioxide levels were above 419 parts per million in May, never this high in our lifetimes.
Climate scientists t...
A new study finds that if all parts of the food system are included, food production is responsible for as much as 40 percent of global emissions. By Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News
June 10, 2021

Emissions from food production, already considered one of the ...
Inside Clean Energy:
National lab wraps up groundbreaking project on electrifying the economy
By Dan Gearino
June 3, 2021
Many scenarios for averting the worst effects of climate change involve electrifying just about everything that now runs on fossil fuels, and shifting to an electricity...
The company was built on gasoline engines but it’s highlighting the ways in which its new EV is a better option.
By Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
May 26, 2021
Accompanied by throbbing electronic music and the requisite fog machines, the electric Ford F-150 Lightning made its...
By Catrin Einhorn © The New York Times Co.
The engineers were used to building overpasses for vehicles, not wildlife. But every spring and fall, collisions with mule deer and pronghorn spiked in the Pinedale region of Wyoming, where Route 191 disrupted their age-old migration paths....
By Julie Marshall
Boulder Daily Camera
Mountain lions of Colorado have been in the news a bit lately. And the news is not so good.
Last month we heard one cougar was shot and killed with a .357 Magnum handgun at an undisclosed Colorado state park by Patrick Montgomery of Littleton, a professional...
CEO Note: Chile protects the oceans from single-use plastic pollution and mandates the sale and use of refillable bottles
BY ANDY SHARPLESS MAY 28, 2021Last week, Chile’s government enacted a law to reduce single-use plastics thanks to campaigning by Oceana and allies. The law is the fi...
By Elizabeth Williamson
© The New York Times Co.
PARAJE, N.M. » Six members of the Laguna Pueblo community gathered last week in the cool, fragrant kitchen of an adobe house, discussing their hopes for “Sister Deb” — Deb Haaland, a Laguna citizen, former congresswoman from New Mexico and now...
NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES ARE SHRINKING
One of the giants of the deep is shrinking before our eyes, a new study says. The younger generation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are on average about three feet shorter than whales were 20 years, drone and aircraft data show in...
Gov. Jay Inslee Signs Bill to Reduce Unnecessary Plastic and Address Growing Plastic Pollution Crisis
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Scientists recently discovered the extent of toxic DDT contamination occurring in the deep ocean off Los Angeles, California from historic dumping is far greater than previously thought, with new estimates of hundreds of thousands of barrels and documentation that many are degraded and leaking. Hund...
By Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain and Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, unspooling a signature achievement of the Trump presidency and delivering on a promise by...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » Despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to cut the pollution from fossil fuels that is driving climate change, his administration quietly has taken actions this month that will guarantee the drilling and burning of oil and gas for decad...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado’s push to combat light pollution so more residents can see stars at night has gained momentum, with four more towns — including Naturita, Nucla and Crestone — winning dark sky designations and others expanding their efforts.
The advocates of also establish...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Wildlife advocates pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday to revive federal protections for gray wolves across the Northern Rockies after Republican lawmakers in Idaho and Montana made it much easier to kill the predators.
The...
By Cathy Bussewitz
Associated Press
NEW YORK » Exxon Mobil’s shareholders have voted to replace at least two of the company’s 12 board members with directors who are seen as better suited to fight climate change, bolster Exxon’s finances and guide it through a transition to cleaner energy.
The re...
By Andrew Selsky The Associated Press
SALEM, ORE. » Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.
The firefighters weren’t there to extinguish the fire. T...
Lululemon is making yoga pants to accompany our mindful habits with dirty coal powered electricity in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
While the yoga pants maker is busy encouraging its customers to “live like your life depends on it,” Lululemon is putting the lives of its factory workers and the heal...
