With Rollback, Trump Administration Unleashes Toxic Water Pollution From Coal Plants Into Drinking
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By Clifford Krauss Nov. 3, 2019 HOUSTON — A surge of oil production is coming, whether the world needs it or not.
The flood of crude will arrive even as concerns about climate change are growing and worldwide oil demand is slowing. And it is not coming from the usual producers, but from B...
Shared from the 10/30/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
The federal investigation into the 2017 explosion that killed two people and destroyed a home in Firestone determined the likely cause was a natural gas leak through a pipeline that had been severed during cons...
Shared from the 10/30/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Christina Larson The Associated Press
A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he relaxes under a tree in Volcanoes National Park. Gorillas eat only plants and insects.
Biologist Jean Paul Hirwa notes her meal on his table...
Shared from the 10/30/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» The number of people threatened by climate change-triggered flooding is about three times higher than previously thought, a new study says. But it’s not because of more water.
It’s because ...
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MOST PLASTIC ENDS UP DISCARDED AS WASTE Joe Deaux and Yvonne Yue Li
Bloomberg News
The University of Colorado’s Folsom Field and The Pepsi Center have switched to aluminum cups. David X Tejada, Provided by Ball Corp. Ball production te...
By Cathy Bussewitz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK» New York’s attorney general is accusing Exxon Mobil of lying to investors about how profitable the company will remain as governments impose stricter regulations to combat global warming.
The lawsuit, which is set to go to trial Tuesday, claims the...
Climate We can't merely cut emissions to preserve a livable planet. We'll have to invent technologies to take back the carbon we've already released. By Jon Gertner Fall 2019
When one grasps the full implications of climate change, there comes a measure of grief. I first recognized ...
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GARDENING
Bird populations are crashing, but we can mitigate the losses
By Adrian Higgins
The Washington Post
The arrival of crisp fall weather has gardeners thinking about the winter, a period of retreat in the garden but not of death...
EDMONTON, ALBERTA » Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg stayed away from any direct criticism of Alberta’s oil sands as the teenager took her message to the oil-rich Canadian province.
The 16-year-old told thousands of people in front of the provincial legislature in Edmonton on Friday tha...
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By Agnieszka De Sousa Bloomberg News
The world loses about $400 billion of food before it even gets delivered to stores, according to the United Nations.
Some 14% of all food produced is lost annually, with central and southern A...
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By Matt O’Brien The Associated Press
Employee activism and outside pressure have pushed big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google into promising to slash their carbon emissions. But there’s another thing these tech giants aren’...
Shared from the 10/13/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Cathy Bussewitz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK» Climate change has led to deadlier wildfire seasons in the American West and more severe hurricanes and storms barreling up the Southern and Eastern coasts. The dramatic weather frequently k...
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By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.» Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a law intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land.
The measure bars any California leasing au...
By Sam Tabachnik
The Denver Post
As Greta Thunberg walked on stage to cap Friday’s climate strike in downtown Denver, the kids and adults in the crowd buzzed with excitement, craning their necks to see the 16-year-old Swede who battles the American president on Twitter and is inspiring a generation...
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By Noah Smith
Bloomberg Opinion
More people are coming around to the idea that climate change is really bad news. A recent Washington Post poll found that 38% of Americans now consider climate change a crisis, with another 38% calling it a major...
AUDUBON , When we were putting the finishing touches on this issue, Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas as a deadly category 5 storm—one of the strongest and longest-lasting hurricanes on record in the Atlantic. It then raked the U.S. shoreline from Florida to North Carolina, sending coastal p...
PG&E Cuts Power to 500,000 in California: Live Updates
Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest utility in the state, could cut electricity to 800,000 customers by day’s end as a precaution against sparking wildfires.
Thomas Fuller
By Thomas Fuller
RIGHT NOWAbout 500,000 customers are...
Recently I wrote about how consumers were moving to use their buying power to buy sustainably produced products and support companies serious about their own practices. Lego today announced it was doing a free return of their plastic toys to reduce the products landing in landfills. Good for t...
