By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow Wednesday after destroying more than 1,000 buildings, nearly half of them homes, while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward several remo...
By Ivan Penn
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California regulators voted Wednesday to require solar power and battery storage in new commercial buildings and high-rise multifamily dwellings, the latest front in the state’s efforts to hasten a transition from fossil fuels to altern...
By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow Wednesday after destroying more than 1,000 buildings, nearly half of them homes, while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward se...
By Ken Amundson
BizWest
WELD COUNTY » The federal government and Noble Energy Inc. have agreed to a settlement in connection with the lawsuit filed Tuesday that will result in a $1 million fine and promises to remedy shortcomings in the oil company’s operation of oil tank batteries in floo...
By Tim Lydon
Writers on the Range
New Mexico, the third-ranking U.S. oil producer, has moved to curtail methane pollution from the oil and gas industry, moving it closer to neighboring Colorado’s leadership. Methane is a dangerous greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and also ...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
One of Colorado health officials’ recommendations for enduring the noxious air pollution that’s enveloped residents this summer, included on the state’s air quality website until Wednesday evening, was to “try to move to a place with cleaner air.”
T...
Bad air this summer may be common along CO Front Range in the future
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Along Colorado’s Front Range, bad air is becoming the summer norm. And while this year’s pollution, which data shows is some of the worst in decades, may bother you now, it is relatively benign co...
By Ivan Penn and Niraj Chokshi
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SAN DIEGO » Robert Teglia bought a Tesla Model 3 sedan even though he knew it cost more than many luxury cars. He didn’t particularly care that it might be better than the others for the environment.
Teglia, a commercial real estate appraise...
The Denver Post, 8-11-2021
Smoke-filled skies, burning lungs, and advisories to keep children indoors have marred the past two Colorado summers, and according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, these nasty effects of a warming climate will only increase in freq...
U.N. data shows ramp up in global warming, more precise forecasts
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that th...
By Iliana Mier and Elena Becatoros
The Associated Press
ARKITSA, GREECE » Firefighters and residents battled into the night Monday for a seventh day against a massive fire on Greece’s second-largest island as the nation endured what the prime minister described as “a natural disaster of unpreceden...
By Heather Murphy
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Will civilization as we know it end in the next 100 years? Will there be any functioning places left? These questions might sound like the stuff of dystopian fiction. But if recent headlines about extreme weather, climate change, the ongoing pandemic and ...
The Denver Post August 7, 2021
By Anders F. Fremstad
Guest Commentary
Many of us have publicly supported this position before. Why are we doing so again now? Global climate change has reached crisis status, requiring immediate national action. President Joe Biden has called fo...
An aircraft drops water during a wildfire Thursday in the Kryoneri area of Athens, Greece. Fires also plagued Turkey’s southern coast for a ninth day Thursday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate by land and sea overnight. Hundreds of square miles of forest burned as more than 180 fires blazed a...
By Hiroko Tabuchi
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Soon after Joe Biden, then a presidential candidate, released his $2 trillion climate plan last year that promised to escalate the use of clean energy in the United States, the world’s major oil and gas groups dialed up their presence on Facebook....
By Christopher Flavelle
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The Biden administration Thursday announced a record injection of money to help communities gird against the effects of climate change, as disasters continue to pummel the United States.
The new funds — $3.5 billion in grants to sta...
By Tom Krisher and Aamer Madhani
Administration eyes mileage, emissions and sales of EVs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Declaring the U.S. must “move fast” to win the car-making future, President Joe Biden on Thursday touted a commitment from the auto industry to make electric vehicl...
By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » The state’s largest wildfire continued to grow Wednesday while thousands of firefighters prepared for a tougher fight as dangerous weather returns.
A red flag warning was issued through Thursday because of hot, bone-dry conditions with w...
Inside Climate NewsInside Clean Energy: Renewables are up and coal is down in most places, at a time of major changes in how we produce electricity. (extracted)
By Dan Gearino
August 5, 2021
The Energy Information Administration reported last week that, for the first time the US used more re...
By Scott Sonner
The Associated Press
RENO, NEV. » U.S. land managers have begun efforts to capture about 50% more wild horses than originally planned this year because of severe drought across the U.S. West — about 6,000 additional animals primarily in Nevada, Oregon and Colorado.
The B...
