By Sam Metz and Ken Ritter The Associated Press
Las Vegas-area water officials have spent two decades trying to get people to replace thirsty greenery with desert plants, and now they’re asking the Nevada Legislature to outlaw roughly 40% of the turf that’s left.
The Southern...
“Electronic noses” helping Denver to purge foul odors By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Odor-detecting “electronic noses” deployed this past month mark Denver’s latest push to purge its olfactory environment as foul fumes again waft into neighborhoods, intensifying with spring as the weather ...
Biden urged to set climate goals
Businesses, investors ask for big cut to emissions by 2030 By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than 300 businesses and investors — including such giants as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Coca-Cola — are calling on the Biden administration to set an...
State sets aside funds to sue others, like Colorado, for their policies on energy
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A new Wyoming law that sets aside money to sue states whose policies hamper the use of Wyoming coal was passed in part with Colorado in mind, the sponsor said.
The bill rece...
EARTH DAY By Kathleen McCleary The Denver Post Parade,
Ever measured on the ocean floor, about 1.9 million pieces in 11 square miles. Even if you’re not glittering your kids’ art projects (colored salt or rice is a good substitute), check your makeup
It’s spring and there’s light at the end of the...
By Mary Williams Walsh
© The New York Times Co.
A deep freeze in February left Texas with billions of dollars in damage from cascading power failures that stranded residents in their dark and flooded homes. And insurance companies are hoping they can pass the bill on — just as they did whe...
The Denver Post Parade
11.3 million tons of textiles went into landfills in 2018.
“If we can keep the stuff that’s already been made in circulation a little longer, there’s less impact on the planet from production,” says the NRDC’s Hoover. That means, think before you buy. Could you patch t...
By Patrick Sisson © The New York Times Co.
Soleil Lofts, an apartment development in suburban Salt Lake City, offers a lot of amenities — pools, three spas, a basketball court, electric appliances, a dog park — to lure potential residents.
But the feature that sealed the deal for Maik Kannenb...
By The Associated Press
CORTEZ » Mesa Verde National Park, known for preserving ancient cultural sites, has been designated the 100th International Dark Sky Park, park officials said. In a statement Monday, the park said the certification would help foster astronomy- based recreation and to...
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping government study released Tuesday that concludes the situation is w...
A Colorado county may have a model for the nation’s conservation efforts By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
David Kelly has lived his whole life in Colorado’s Upper Arkansas River Valley, where his family has ranched since 1952. The community is committed to helping him and other ranchers the...
The Denver Post’s editorial board
America is finally on the right trajectory when it comes to adding, protecting, and utilizing our public lands. In 2019 an epic lands deal was signed into law by President Donald Trump with bipartisan support that added protections to 1.3 million acres of lan...
By Sophia Eppolito The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY » For decades, a public lands tug-of-war has played out over a vast expanse of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive twin buttes bulge from a grassy valley.
A string of U.S. officials...
By Somini Sengupta
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How does a country deal with climate disasters when it is drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy.
Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among do...
Mike Hattel, Louisville Why return to barbaric hunting in Montana?
“Bears, wolves become part of the culture wars,” March 29 news story The Denver Post
The article reports that once again barbaric hunting techniques are being introduced, this time in the Montana state legislature. ...
By Cathy Bussewitz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » Good-paying jobs — many of them.
That’s the seductive idea around which President Joe Biden is proposing a vast transformation of the energy sector, with the promise of making it far more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. A...
By Chris O’Meara and Adriana Gomez Licon The Associated Press
PALMETTO, FLA. » Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday that crews were working to prevent the collapse of a large wastewater pond in the Tampa Bay area while evacuating the area to avoid a “catastrophic flood.”
Manatee Co...
By Thomas Covert and Ryan Kellogg
Guest Commentary
The U.S. federal government owns vast acreage of resource- rich public lands; $25 billion of oil and gas was produced from federal lands in 2019 alone. But thanks to decades of stagnant policies, these resources are being all but g...
By Ian Silverii
Columnist for The Denver Post
Colorado is a national leader in renewable energy and fighting human-caused climate change.
In 2004, clean energy advocates and environmentalists took Amendment 37 to the ballot, establishing a 10% renewable energy standard, and won.
The amen...
By Allen Best
Writers on the Range
Pushback against a “meatless day” proclaimed by Gov. Jared Polis last month was predictably vigorous. It was part of the “war on rural Colorado,” said a state senator who runs a cattle-feeding operation.
Twenty-six of Colorado’s 64 counties adopted “meat-in” pro...
