By Biswajeet Banerjee
The Associated Press
LUCKNOW, India>> Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali with a new Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country.
Across the country, dazzling multicolored ...
NATIVE AMERICANS
Clean energy projects funded
By Sophie Austin
The Associated Press/ Report for America
The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable energy on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, the Biden administration announced o...
Utility to pay for Pano AI’s camera systems on 1.5M acres across its territory Utility to pay for Pano AI’s camera systems on 1.5 million acres across its territory
By Judith Kohler
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Xcel Energy Colorado, which expects to spend about $180 million on wildfire prevention this ...
By KC Becker
Guest Commentary
The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent Clean Air Act fuels settlement with the Suncor refinery generated questions about the settlement and the EPA’s broader efforts to improve environmental conditions at the facility and in nearby communities in Commerce City a...
By Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Six years ago, an executive from Suniva, a bankrupt solar panel manufacturer, warned a packed hearing room in Washington that competition from companies in China and Southeast Asia was causing a “bloodbath” in his industry. Mo...
By Seung Min Kim
The Associated Press
BEAR, Del.>> President Joe Biden, arguably the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan, visited a train maintenance shop in his home state of Delaware on Monday to showcase more than $16 billion in federal investments for r...
By Peter Eavis
The New York Times
For more than a century, the Panama Canal has provided a convenient way for ships to move between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, helping to speed up international trade.
But a drought has left the canal without...
By Dionne Searcey and Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
America’s stewardship of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many places, oversight is all but nonexistent, a New York Times analysis has found.
The ...
By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE>> Northern New Mexico or bust — that seems to be the case for at least one Mexican gray wolf that is intent on wandering beyond the boundaries set for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America.
Federal and state wild...
U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn.
The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble ...
James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers.
By Bob Berwyn
November 2, 2023

During the past year, the needl...
Last month, over 100 Amazonian river dolphins were found dead in a lake in the Brazilian Amazon. Their fate was due to a combination of heat and low water levels from what many consider to be the worst drought in the history of the Amazon.
Like other extreme weather events, the climate crisis...
Agency reports targets in reach via wind, solar power
By Noelle Phillips
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Colorado’s power companies can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 98.5% by 2040 without new government policies or programs that would increase costs to consumers, according to a new modeling r...
  
Backyard lawns safe, but draft bill proposes prohibition on new ornamental grasses
By Elise Schmelzer
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Coloradans might have to say goodbye to verdant green medians full of grass if state lawmakers succeed in a plan to save water b...
By Katrina Miller
The New York Times
The American Ornithological Society, the organization responsible for standardizing English bird names across the Americas, announced Wednesday it would rename all species honoring people. Bird names derived from people, the society said in a statement, can be ...
By Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS>> The heating element removed from Monique Plaisance’s water heater in September was disintegrating, streaked with rust and covered in a dry crust. She blamed the corrosion on the wa...
  
The short-term crisis averted; here’s what’s at stake in negotiations for its long-term future

By Elise Schmelzer
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An immediate crisis on the Colorado River has been averted, but negotiators now must turn their attention to the next pro...
CRITICAL MINERALS
The controversy about the industrialized extraction of seabed minerals was put to rest for the time being as the governing council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) agreed to take two more years to finalize mining regulations.
The ISA, established by the U.N. as an ...
NEW LAW ABOUT TO KICK IN
By Suzie Romig
Pilot & Today
Owners of retail businesses and food and drink establishments likely are carefully considering their orders for disposable containers and carryout bags this fall as a statewide ordinance will kick in Jan. 1 to ban carryout plastic bags and...
By Clifford Krauss
The New York Times
Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the two largest U.S. oil companies, this month committed to spending more than $50 billion each to buy smaller companies in deals that would let them produce more oil and natural gas for decades to come.
But a day after Chevron announ...
