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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Julian Lee Bloomberg Opinion   Don’t dismiss the leak of oil from the MV Wakashio that ran aground last month on a reef off the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius so quickly. The volume lost may seem tiny, but its location, mixed w...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Officials recommend constructing “safe rooms” for protection against particulates By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post Beyond wildfire smoke, the air quality in Denver has deteriorated as residents also are barraged with infusions of multiple ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Shared from the 8/21/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 4 feet of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had be...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
hared from the 8/23/2020 The Denver Post eEditio By Samy Magdy
The Associated Press   A Second Village farmer shows a shriveled olive. Egypt’s farmers face severely stretched water resources because of years of mismanagement and increasing population. SECOND VILLAGE, EGYPT»In the winter o...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
Shared from the 8/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post Environmental organizations are suing to scrap a management plan that would allow oil and gas drilling across public lands in southwestern Colorado. Six environmental groups filed the lawsuit in U.S. District ...
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Posted by on in Ecotourism
Shared from the 8/16/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Oliver Whang © The New York Times Co. On a bright morning early this spring, David Ledford sat in his silver pickup at the end of a three-lane bridge spanning a deep gorge in southeast Kentucky. The bridge, which forks off U.S. 119, was construc...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Shared from the 8/18/2020 The Denver Post eEdition OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN ALASKA Trump administration finalizes plan to open refuge to drilling By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain
© The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON»The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up part ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
How Methane Gas Causes Climate Change and What To Do About It by Katrina Cosolo | Apr 16, 2018 | Climate Change Causes, Climate Change Impact, Weather According to NASA, climate change is extensively caused by greenhouse gases which block the heat in the Ear...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Shared from the 8/14/2020 The Denver Post eEdition ROLLBACK OF OBAMA RULE  By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON»The Trump administration formally weakened a major climate change regulation Thursday — effectively freeing oil and gas companies from the need to detect and repai...
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Posted by on in Energy Efficiency
Shared from the 8/18/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Coral Davenport
© The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON» California on Monday finalized a legal settlement with four of the world’s largest automakers that binds them to comply with its stringent state-level fuel efficiency standards that would...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 12, 2020 SPOKANE, WASH.»The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump adm...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
By Christopher Flavelle, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 22, 2020 WASHINGTON» Climate change threatens to create turmoil in the financial markets, and the Federal Reserve and other regulators must act to avoid an economic disaster, according to a letter sent on Tuesday...
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Posted by on in Green Design
Office buildings decrease environmental impact, give back to the planet By Jane Margolies, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 19, 2020 For a couple of decades, many in the real estate industry have been trying to make buildings “green,” replacing conventionally made ...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
By Hiroko Tabuchi, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 17, 2020 The day debt-ridden Texas oil producer MDC Energy filed for bankruptcy eight months ago, a tank at one of its wells was furiously leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. As of last week,...
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Posted by on in Solar
By Dan Mika, BizWest/Daily Camera, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 23, 2020 Real Goods Solar Inc. has begun liquidation of two of its regional installation groups and its financial arm. The three subsidiaries, Alteris Renewables Inc., RGS Financing Inc. and the company behind Sunetric, all file...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 9, 2020 SANTA FE»The New Mexico Environment Department has fined an oil and gas company more than $5.3 million for repeated violations of state air pollution standards. DCP Midstream was issued a compliance order Tuesday. A spokeswoman for t...
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Posted by on in Mining
The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 9, 2020   DURANGO»The Environmental Protection Agency plans to temporarily seal a bulkhead at one of the most polluted mines in a Colorado region as part of a study of the region’s water. The EPA plans to close a bulkhead valve at the ...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
By Hiroko Tabuchi, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 17, 2020 The day debt-ridden Texas oil producer MDC Energy filed for bankruptcy eight months ago, a tank at one of its wells was furiously leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. As of last week,...
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By Alissa J. Rubin and Clifford Krauss, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 17, 2020 NAHRAN OMAR, IRAQ»The men of Nahran Omar, a village in the heart of southern Iraq’s oil country, filed into a Shiite shrine clutching envelopes with X-rays, medical reports and death certi...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Elizabeth Williamson and Sarah Mervosh, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 16, 2020 GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZ.» Glowing purple and scarlet in fading afternoon light, the geological marvel that is the Grand Canyon, the crown jewel of America’s national park syste...
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