By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Gray wolves gained a hardfought path to “paws on the ground” in Colorado with the approval Thursday of a controversial reintroduction measure, the first time a state’s voters have forced their government to re-introduce an imperiled species.
Colorado Parks and ...
CLIMATE
CHANGE
By Frank Jordan and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
BERLIN » The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact it helped forge five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.
The move, long threatened by U.S. President Donald ...
By Keith Schneider
© The New York Times Co.
SPOKANE, WASH. » Although it was established in 1873 near some of North America’s most productive forests, Spokane has rarely focused on new timber products in construction. But that is starting to change.In the city’s downtown, Eastern Washing...
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By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Trump administration officials on Thursday ended endangered species protection for gray wolves nationwide, rankling conservationists who contend wolves still are vulnerable — and raising the stakes in Colorado’s citizendri...
More than a million tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.
In 2016 — the last year en...
By Alex Burness The Denver Post
Despite increasing acceptance of the science of climate change across the state, what to do about it remains a politically sensitive question.
Colorado, as in the world in general, is getting hotter, drier and increasingly susceptible to floods and wildfires, a...
By Brad Plumer © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » In recent decades, the United States and Europe have gone to considerable lengths to mandate cleaner, more efficient cars at home. But at the same time, they are shipping millions of their oldest and worst-polluting vehicles to poorer countries i...
SAFETY
CONCERNS AMID RECESSION
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Mark Schell’s family has farmed in Colorado since 1906 and even though he works as a certified public accountant, he hasn’t left that way of life behind.
About a year ago, Schell bought a 310-acre farm in Mead that he leases to som...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
The owner of a cement plant in Florence has started design and engineering work with the goal of making it the first such U.S. facility to use carbon-capture technology on a commercial scale.
LafargeHolcim, a global building materials supplier, has receive...
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By Ivan Penn© The New York Times Co.
Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadlin...
•October 28, 2020
President Trump has removed protections from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of the world’s largest temperate rainforests, to allow for logging and development.
A notice, posted by the Forest Service on Wednesday, stated that all 16.7 million acres will be ope...
If President Trump's decision to strip protections in Alaska's Tongass National Forest was little more than a troll — well, he got us. For environmentalists and climate science believers, the announcement Wednesday was received with about the same disbelief, horror, and revulsion as watching someone...
By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
Rather than building a wall along the border with Mexico, the next president of the United States would be better off building a wall along the Gulf of Mexico coastline. Climate change will have a far bigger impact on the country than immigrants from Latin America.
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The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2020By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUISSECTIONS
By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS UPDATED Oct 15, 2020
Over four years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled major climate policies and rolled back many m...
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ELECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE By Brad Plumer
Oct. 14, 2020 The New York Times
The presidential election is just weeks away, and climate change has broken through as a defining issue for Americans this year, even amid a historic pandemic and deep economic uncerta...
By Christopher Flavelle and Lisa Friedman
© The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » The Trump administration recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted f...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Environmental organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to overturn a plan for public lands in southwestern Colorado, saying it was approved while William Perry Pendley headed the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and a federal court has ruled that his ...
A new report by Amazon Watch and Brazil's Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB) reveals that six US firms invested US$18 billion into nine companies tied to the destruction of the Amazon and the violation of Indigenous rights.
The financial corporations BlackRock, Bank of America, JPMorg...
Yahoo News October 24, 2020
The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.
The Galapagos penguin is one of the smallest species of penguins in the world, measuring up to 35 centim...
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By Elaine Lies
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is aiming to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 and become a carbon-neutral society, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday as he unveiled a major shift in position on climate change.Japan had previously sa...
