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PFAS have been used in fast-food wrappers and in foam to fight fuel fires at airports. The harmful chemicals have been found in waterways and people in Colorado. Now the state is making it a priority to measure the levels of them and contain them.&...
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LESS RUNOFF GOING INTO LAKE POWELL AND LAKE MEAD By Sam Metz
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John Locher, The Associated Pres CARSON CITY, NEV.»
There’s a chance water levels in the two largest man-made reservoirs in the United ...
by Laurie Goering | @lauriegoering | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 18 September 2020 17:40 GMT
As climate impacts surge, Fridays for Future youth activists aim to resume virus-smart mass protest By Laurie GoeringLONDON, Sept 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leaders of a youth climate strike ...
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By Clifford Krauss
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HOUSTON»As oil prices plunge and concerns about climate change grow, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and other European energy companies are selling off oil fields, planning a sharp reduction in emissions and inve...
The Trump administration has acted to repeal or weaken at least 100 environmental regulations over the past four years, including a number of Obama-era climate policies that Mr. Trump has said stifle businesses. The rollbacks include:
Fuel-economy standards: The Trump administration ...
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Colorado has joined a coalition of states and cities in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s rolling back of a federal rule intended to limit emissions of methane and other pollutants from new oil and gas operations.
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Shared from the 9/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Trump spurs science on wildfires, climate By Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani, Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.» With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Mon...
CLIMATE CHANGE Shared from the 9/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Hiroko Tabuchi © The New York Times Co.
Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies h...
Shared from the 9/17/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Farhad Manjoo
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Among the few remaining advantages that Americans can claim over other countries is the relative cleanliness of our air. Air pollution is a leading risk factor for early death; it is linked to an...
With 82% of fish being removed faster than they can repopulate and climate change and acidification reducing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon, a crucial planetary life support system is in crisis. In the September issue of The Ethical Corporation magazine, we do a deep dive into oceans, and asse...
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A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats such as coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In...
AUGUST 19, 2020 | 1:30 PM
From its extraction and production to its management as a waste product, plastic generates planet-warming emissions at every step of its lifecycle.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
If plastic use were a country, it’d be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Extract...
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KILLINGS OVER BORDER IN WYOMING Bruce Finley
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With Colorado voters set to decide whether to order a re-introduction of wolves, wildlife officials using cameras and “howl surveys” say they’ve regularly detected multiple wolves ...
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ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE, DRUG TRAFFICKERS By Aimee Ortiz
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Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in some countries, has long fueled demand for illegally harvested fins. But federal authorities in Georgia announced...
Shared from the 9/10/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein
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A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s 16th and 17th nam...
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The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.
In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 cha...
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CLIMATE AND DISASTERS
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’...
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By Todd Wilkinson
Writers on the Range

Mark DeOpsomer of Bozeman, Montana, is a backpacker with lots of miles on his soles. For almost four decades he’s gone to the remotest corners of the Northern Rockies.
On a recent trek 24 m...
Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Veronica Penney
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Ka Young Lee, The New York Times
If you take an airplane trip, can you make up for the planet-warming emissions from that flight by doing things like driving less and turning off the lights in your house...
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By Livia Albeck-Ripka
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CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA»Diving beneath the ocean’s surface, Russell Hosp swam toward the limestone bed of the Great Barrier Reef, where he reattached bits of blue stag-horn coral. With tourists gone, he was...
