By Noam Scheiber
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Patricia Fahy, a New York state legislator, celebrated when a new development project for the Port of Albany — the country’s first assembly plant dedicated to building offshore wind towers — was approved in January.
“I was doing cartwheels,” said ...
By Michael Elizabeth Sakas
Colorado Public Radio
On an early weekday morning in Longmont, the co-owners of the boutique catering company Whistling Boar are busy in the kitchen getting their weekly meal boxes ready for delivery. David Pitula and Debbie Seaford-Pitula moved to Colorado from ...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
RED FEATHER LAKES » Wind blowing down from burned forests caressed a knoll where leaders from the Biden administration and Congress sat in camp chairs Friday, looking over charts showing massive new fire breaks along Colorado’s Front Range, mobilizing to combat casc...
By Henry Fountain
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Scientists Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: Doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.
In a study that averaged results ...
Reuters
The Biden administration on Monday said it has approved a major solar energy project in the California desert that will be capable of powering nearly 90,000 homes.
The $550 million Crimson Solar Project will be sited on 2,000 acres of federal land west of Blythe, California, the In...
Energy Reuters 2 minute read
The Tennessee Valley Authority, a U.S.-owned utility, confirmed on Monday it plans to shut four remaining coal plants by 2035, the year by when President Joe Biden wants the nation's power grid to be decarbonized to fight climate change.
TVA first started using co...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Metro Denver residents testifying in public hearings demanded closure of the problem plagued Suncor Energy oil refinery, urging Colorado health officials not to renew the refinery’s outdated operating permits that allow air pollution.
More than 150 ...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » In the first Biden administration rule aimed at combating climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in...
The lopsided vote was a reminder that bipartisan cooperation on public works projects is possible, but lawmakers in both parties said the spirit of compromise could be fleeting.The legislation approved on Thursday would authorize funding to clean up the nation’s water systems.
Erin Kirkland for The...
The largest coal-fired power plants keep on going, even as many smaller ones close. By Dan Gearino May 3, 2021
To survive among the shrinking fleet of U.S. coal-fired power plants, it helps to be extremely big.
On April 22, American Electric Power announced that it would close the Rockpo...
This editorial is excerpted from the Boulder Daily Camera.
A snowy mountain lion visiting a Lee Hill home made headlines and popular retweets of the video last week. The large feline was stunningly beautiful, making massive paw prints across the patio while the family and their small dog were safel...
The Denver Post
Gov. Jared Polis published a comprehensive roadmap, two years in the making, for Colorado to rapidly and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now he should support the legislation that will make sure we follow his plan.
Senate Bill 200 is not Colorado’s version of t...
There’s a very good chance of recovery for most species – if their habitat is protected
A female small bronze azure, one of 26 butterfly species at risk of extinction. Photograph: Butterfly Conservation SA
Michael F Braby, Hayley Geyle, Jaana Diel...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A new study that looks at Pennsylvania’s rules for locating oil and wells, and which notes Colorado’s new regulations, found that the distance between buildings and wells didn’t significantly change when the rules were tightened because exemptions were allowed.
Th...
By Stanley Reed and Raphael Minder © The New York Times Co.
MADRID » In winter 2015, three directors of a Connecticut electric company met with a potential acquirer: a determined Spanish utility executive named José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, who surprised them with a bold vision for America’s uti...
By Sheila Kaplan
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a long-sought public health goal of civil rights and anti-tobacco groups that has been beaten back by the tobacco industry for years, according to a federal health official.
For decades, menthol cigarettes have been marketed aggressively to Black ...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Senate voted Wednesday to effectively reinstate an Obama-era regulation designed to clamp down on emissions of methane — a powerful, climate- warming pollutant that will have to be controlled to meet President J...
By Emma Bubola
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ROME » It seemed like just another violation of coronavirus social-distance restrictions when Italian police broke up a luncheon of about 20 people last week near the northern city of Brescia.
But then they stumbled onto an illegal massacre on the...
By Mariel Garza
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Did you hear that President Biden is going to ration hamburgers and steaks and force red-blooded Americans to consume horrible things like Brussel sprouts and tofu in a bid to reduce carbon emissions?
No? If you weren’t watching Fox News this weeken...
