In the coronavirus age, issues like paid sick leave and climate impact take on a new, urgent cast.
By Alexandra Kirkman
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the problems with how many businesses operate: from inadequate sick leave policies and poor working conditions to continued attempt...
Apr 1, 2020 Conservation International
Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world at lightning speed, infecting more than 900,000 people and killing more than 40,000 people to date. Protecting nature will be critical to preventing future pandemics, some scientists say. W...
Industry’s struggles raise concerns about orphan wells, flaring
By Aldo Svaldi
The Denver Post
Colorado will delay hearings on a major revamp of its oil and gas regulations by several weeks, even as concerns mount about how much of the state’s petroleum industry will be left to regulate.
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Toilet paper may be on our minds, but it’s still not on store shelves. Could you ever have imagined such high demand for TP? Just as you may be experiencing varying levels of TP shortages, so too have retailers and suppliers. They’re having a tough time meeting the surge in demand, but there is a hu...
Shared from the 4/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Sue McMillin Columnist for The Denver Post
Brown clouds have lifted, levels of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide have measurably shrunk, and public health warnings about poor air quality have declined.
Not just in Denver, but worldwide.&n...
Shared from the 4/24/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
WASHINGTON » The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other na...
Shared from the 4/23/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Chris Hansen
Guest Commentary
We are facing a challenge unlike anything we’ve seen in a century. When it’s over, we will face another one: how to recover. The economic and social recovery is likely to be slow. It will take time to adjust t...
Josepha Eyre, Women’s Bean Project died of Covid 19, her obituary was lovely and I will pass along a quote, “You do not have to be great or important or famous to change the world. If you can look around, you can be inspired by the situation or
the challenges other people face and turn that i...
The 50th annual call for environmental reform falls at a time when the health of people and nature has never been more urgent
Fifty years ago today, the first Earth Day was marked in the United States as a peaceful call for environmental reform, following a massive oil spill off the coast of Califo...
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In 50 years of Earth Day's, people have gathered to celebrate our Earth and bring attention and action to reducing our harm of the Earth so it is sustainable for future generations. This year we are facing a global public health crisis that keeps us physically apart BUT does not prev...
Shared from the 4/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
DEEPWATER HORIZON By Kevin McGill and Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS» Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper an...
Shared from the 4/20/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
HOUSTON» Danielle Nelson’s best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son.
On some nights, the ...
The Denver Post, April 10
The destruction of forests into fragmented patches is increasing the likelihood that viruses and other pathogens will jump from wild animals to humans, according to a study from Stanford University published this month.
The research, which focused on contact between huma...
SHERYL DEVORE LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN APR 16, 2020 The pandemic and climate change
During the coronavirus pandemic, people are using their cars and flying in planes less, and that translates to less-polluted skies and healthier air. Indeed, copious photos can be found showing skies before the pandemic...
By SHERYL DEVORE LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN APR 16, 2020 |
April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. But there will be no large gatherings across the nation as there were last year and years before that. Though some environmental leaders think a sea change at corporate and political levels is req...
Good Afternoon,
On behalf of our colleagues a the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) we would like to share the below message.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic:
Purchase and Distribution of Food Eligible for Public Assistance
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be n...
April 14th, 2020 by Tina Casey The National Renewable Laboratory just nailed down bragging rights to the world’s most efficient solar cell to date. The new PV device sails past the theoretical limit of 33% and gets pretty close to the 50% range, clocking in at an impressive 47.1%. The downside ...
BY BOB BERWYN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS
APR 13, 2020

For the third time in the last five years, the Great Barrier Reef off the Australian coast underwent brutal bleaching. A warming climate is responsible for the destruction of the largest coral reef on Earth. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times vi...
Shared from the 4/13/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By John Flesher and Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
As the coronavirus rampages, the public increasingly is turning to experts in academia and government — the educated, experienced “elites” that many Americans had tuned out.
Ridicu...
