Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler
Smoke from the Pine Gulch Fire fills the air around oil and gas development in the Roan Plateau on Aug. 24 in Grand Junction. The two major party contenders for president have very different views on the direction the U.S. shou...
Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Aurora and Colorado Springs take the first steps to build $500 million dam, reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
HOMESTAKE CREEK»A hundred miles from Colorado’s Front Range house-building boom, field scientist D...
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By Stephen Whyno
The Associated Press
EDMONTON, ALBERTA »The NHL on Thursday unveiled a series of anti-racism initiatives more than eight months after Akim Aliu brought the topic to the forefront in the predominantly white s...
By Eduardo Duwe, Marcia Reverdosa and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Updated 0145 GMT (0945 HKT) August 19, 2020
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)A Brazilian sanctuary, home to 15% of the world's population of blue macaws, has been consumed by fires -- and there are fears for the well-being of the rare birds.
"It is ...
Shared from the 9/3/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
SCALING BACK ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, inclu...
Shared from the 9/2/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By The Associated Press
A passenger rail line in Colorado would accommodate 9,200 people every weekday and nearly 3 million per year, according to new modeling by state officials. The proposed line would stretch from Fort Collins south to ...
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By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
Since Monday there will be just one oil company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Chevron Corp. The removal of Exxon Mobil Corp. from the index after an uninterrupted presence since 1928 shouldn’t come as...
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By Matthew Brown and Travis Loller
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contamina...
CEO Note: Historic agreement to protect Belize’s reef and ocean fisheries and wildlife
BY ANDY SHARPLESS AUGUST 24, 2020
The Government of Belize has taken a big step forward in protecting its ocean – home to 40% of the world’s second largest reef. After campaigning by t...
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"Hello. Today, I’d like to speak to you about something that’s very important and that weighs on my heart: to speak about the oceans. Oceans contain the bulk of our planet’s water supply, and also most of the immense variety of living creatures, many of which are th...
By the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer) https://www.popesprayer.va/
“We need to grow in the conviction that a decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development.” Pope Francis explains to us that it is i...
Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Michael Levenson
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Environmentalists are expressing alarm over an increasing number of dead dolphins that have washed ashore on Mauritius after a Japanese ship ran aground last month, spilling oil into the famed blue lago...
Shared from the 8/7/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
100% of Colorado in drought
Hot and dry conditions are hammering Colorado, intensifying a 20-year shift toward aridity. On Thursday, federal officials designated 100% of the state abnormally dry or in drought for the...
Shared from the 8/28/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ean Thomas Tafoya
Guest Commentary
We learned recently that the Suncor Energy refinery had another “upset” event in which one of its boilers failed, releasing untold quantities of unknown toxic chemicals into the air. We learned this after...
Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Stanley Reed
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This may turn out to be the year that oil giants, especially in Europe, started looking more like electric companies.
Late last month, Royal Dutch Shell won a deal to build a vast wind farm off the coa...
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Impact of hotter times By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
The sun beat down, baking Colorado’s bone-dry, cracking San Luis Valley, where farmers for eight years have been trying to save their depleted underground water but are falling behin...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Xcel Energy-Colorado, the state’s largest electric utility, has proposed offering lower rates to new and expanding businesses for up to 10 years.
The proposal was submitted Monday to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy said. The incentive could ...
Shared from the 8/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Theresa Davis
The Albuquerque Journal
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On Aug. 5, 2015, Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the...
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By Bella Huang and Amy Qin
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Chinese regulators are calling out live-streamers who binge-eat for promoting excessive consumption. A school said it would bar students from applying for scholarships if their daily left...
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REDUCED MONITORING By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown and Michael Casey The Associated Press
Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for ...
