JPMorgan Chase and other big banks should use their lending power to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
By Daniel Growald, Peter Gill Case and Valerie Rockefeller
The writers are fifth-generation members of the Rockefeller family. Opinion column, The New York Times
Oct. 11, 2020
One h...
Shared from the 10/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Scott SonnerThe Associated Press
RENO, NEV.» Citing the government’s repeated reversals and refusals to protect a cousin of the greater sage grouse the past two decades, conservationists are suing again to try to force the federal listing of...
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PAGE, ARIZ.»For decades, waves of electricity poured from this behemoth of a power plant on the high desert plateau of the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, lighting up hundreds of thousands of homes f...
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OCEANS AROUND THE WORLD By Tiffany May
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Plastic waste has long been a visible — and growing — problem in oceans around the world, with refuse littering the shorelines of once-pristine beaches, stretching out across a wid...
LONDON» Prince William on Thursday announced the establishment of an environmental prize worth $65 million that will reward climate change solutions over the next 10 years, saying it was an effort to “turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism.”
It will be comprised o...
Combat climate change, Letter to Editor, The Denver Post, October 13. 2020 Peter Fessenden, Highlands Ranch, CO
COVID-19 is a crisis. Much worse, particularly for future generations, is human-caused climate change. Many years of research yield a four-part solution.
Step 1: Education as to ho...
Coral, COVID, and Climate Change:
How Coronavirus is Shaping the Dive Industry
By Casper Ohm
One of the only redeeming elements of the current global pandemic is emerging evidence of a massive revitalization of the natural world. Presumably, cutbacks in emissions and the notable absence of humans...
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MISMANAGEMENT, SANCTIONS TAKE A TOLL
By Sheyla Urdaneta, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera
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CABIMAS, VENEZUELA» For the first time in a century, there are no rigs searching for oil in Venezuela.
Wells that once tapped ...
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By Patrick Whittle and Michael Casey
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PORTLAND, MAINE» Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Muto, whose two boats fis...
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By Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» A U.S. government watchdog agency faulted the Trump administration Tuesday for its handling of a COVID-19 relief effort that awarded companies breaks on payments for oil and gas extracted ...
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RULING ON ACTING FEDERAL AGENCY CHIEFBy Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Sixty environmental organizations say decisions about management of public lands in Colorado and across the West should be set aside after a federal judge ruled that William Per...
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The United States has been stalled in its approach to climate change, and with attention so heavily focused on the coronavirus pandemic, this may seem an inauspicious moment for action.
But the shoc...
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When rare rains come, seasonal pools host milky white creatures By Sabrina Imbler © The New York Times Co.
In springtime, when the rain gathers into pools in the Dasht-e Lut, a desert in Iran, the sand comes alive.
Tiny, desiccated eggs, buried ...
After decades of delays, sea walls to defend Venice from high water went up Saturday. The tide reached 4 feet and water in the lagoon remained stready. If the walls had not been raised St Mark's Square would have been flooded about a foot and half.
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“IT BOGGLES THE MIND” By Jocelyn Gecker The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO»
In a year that has already brought apocalyptic skies and smothering smoke to the West Coast, California set a grim new record Sunday when officials announced that the wil...
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CARLSBAD, N.M.» Leading oil companies in the Permian Basin are working with a Colorado-based nonprofit environmental organization to better track emissions from the industry as it tries to curb pollution.
Shell Energy,...
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ALBUQUERQUE By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE»Federal managers are warning that if hot and dry conditions persist, it’s possible that the stretch of the Rio Grande flowing through Albuquerque could dry up this fall....
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COAL INDUSTRY
Ex-CEO seeks lung benefit By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.VA.» Former coal CEO Robert E. Murray, who has fought federal regulations on the industry, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for b...
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NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED By Matthew Brown and Steve KarnowskiThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining projects and could offer grants and loans to help companies pay for equipment, a...
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PARIS» France’s environment minister revealed a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms.
Barbara Pompili, France’s minister of e...
