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The New York Times
Even for a state where a certain amount of weather-related chaos is normal, this winter in California felt relentless. There were catastrophic floods, mudslides, walls of snow, destructive waves, downed trees and, now, potho...
Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs climb in American Lung Association’s rankings of most polluted cities
By NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2023 at 11:09 a.m. | UPDATED: April 20, 2023 at 3:48 p.m.
Three Colorado cities are going in...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont.>> The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation’s woodlands from fires, insects and other side ef...
By NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2023 at 12:51 p.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.
Two natural gas processors doing business in Colorado agreed this week to multi-million dollar settlements with the federal government over continuous viol...
The world's glaciers melted at dramatic speed last year and saving them is effectively a lost cause, the United Nations reported Friday, as climate change indicators once again hit record highs.
This year, we rally behind the theme “Invest In Our Planet”, which highlights the importance of dedicating our time, resources, and energy to solving climate change and other environmental issues. Investing in our planet is necessary to protect it and the best way to pave a path towards a prosperous...
By Ken Ritter and Terry Tang
The Associated Press
PHOENIX>> A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project.
The $233 million pact wit...
Large-scale operations put a lot of pressure on regional power grids
By Gabriel J.X. Dance
The New York Times
Texas was gasping for electricity. Winter Storm Uri had knocked out power plants across the state, leaving tens of thousands of homes in icy darkness. By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly ...
By Bruce Finley
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Mountain snow-melting intensified this week with an unusually abrupt “flick of the switch” from cold to hot, leading to flooding that on Thursday cut off northwestern Colorado’s main transportation route and forced the shutdown of schools.
The statewide heat...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration is planning some of the most stringent auto pollution limits in the world, designed to ensure that all-electric cars make up as much as 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the country by 2032, according to two peop...
State lawmakers want rust-colored, smelly liquid to be tested

By Sam Tabachnik
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Karla Garcia remembers the first time her son came rushing in to tell her about the water.
After moving two years ago to Apple Tree Park, a mobile home community tucked beside the Colorado...
Storms hit beekeepers, but honey outlook’s sweet

Beekeeper Gene Brandi tends to his hives at a cherry tree orchard in San Juan Bautista, Calif., on Thursday. TERRY CHEA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Amy Taxin
The Associated Press
During California’s prolonged, wet winter, beekeeper Gene Brandi sa...
By Sibi Arasu
The Associated Press
The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the biggest source of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere, a report Wednesday found.
The coal fleet grew by 19.5 gigawatts last year, enough to light up ...
By Max Bearak
The New York Times
When the Biden administration greenlighted the $8 billion Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope last month, many decried the move as a betrayal of the United States’ pledge to move away from fossil fuels in the fight against climate change.
But an analysis of...
By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M.>> Native American tribes, as well as state and local governments, will be able to tap into $350 million in infrastructure funds to build wildlife corridors along busy roads and add warning signs for drivers in what federal of...
By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer)
Climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences, a new study found.
Hotter, thinner air that allows balls to fly farther contributed a tiny bit to a surge in home runs...
Technology aimed at tackling climate change; company announces Colorado as its base
By JUDITH KOHLER |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2023 at 1:10 p.m. | UPDATED: April 5, 2023 at 1:18 p.m.
One of the world’s largest plants built to remove carbon dioxide from...
Advocates say regional network could boost renewable energy, cut costs for customers
By JUDITH KOHLER |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: April 6, 2023 at 10:44 a.m.
Xcel Energy, Blacks Hills Energy and Tri-State Generation and Trans...
By NITTO TIRE
March 07, 2023 at 1:15 AM
To paraphrase Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II,
"If history has taught me one thing, it's that you can electrify anything." Electrolite here is proof of that. It's the brainchild of Kevin Erickson and his shop, EV Muscle Cars in...
U.S. lags behind China, Europe; Colorado among states where EV sales rising quickly
By JUDITH KOHLER |
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| The Denver Post
March 23, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.
Based on quicker-than-expected moves to electric vehicles, a leading provider of data and analytics to the energy ind...
