By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada are awash with a toxic industrial compound associated with serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Uni...
Inside Clean Energy:
National lab wraps up groundbreaking project on electrifying the economy
By Dan Gearino
June 3, 2021
Many scenarios for averting the worst effects of climate change involve electrifying just about everything that now runs on fossil fuels, and shifting to an electricity...
By Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain and Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, unspooling a signature achievement of the Trump presidency and delivering on a promise by...
Lululemon is making yoga pants to accompany our mindful habits with dirty coal powered electricity in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
While the yoga pants maker is busy encouraging its customers to “live like your life depends on it,” Lululemon is putting the lives of its factory workers and the heal...
Plaintiffs in the suit call the first instance of a judge ordering an oil giant to comply with the Paris climate agreement “a turning point in history.”
By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino
May 26, 2021
In a landmark ruling being hailed by climate activists as “game-changing,” a Dutch court...
ExxonMobil has spent the last six months locked in a battle for its future, ever since a small investment firm launched a long-shot bid to reshape the company’s board of directors and steer the oil giant on a more climate-friendly path.
On Wednesday, Exxon lost, at least in part, when a majority of...
For years, the idea of turbines churning in the Pacific was dismissed as impractical. The deep water poses an array of logistical challenges, and the Navy would rather not deal with all those offshore obstacles.
But new technology and a new president determined to rapidly expand win...
Picture, Jane Goodall with Grant Barbeito, Founder, Earth Protect
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, was named Thursday as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honoring individuals wh...
In Ford factory visit, he pitches $4 trillion economic agenda
By Jim Tankersley and Neal E. Boudette
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President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan Tuesday to visit the factory where Ford will produce the first electric version of its signature F-150 pickup truck, seeking to ha...
By Henry Fountain
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Scientists Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: Doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.
In a study that averaged results ...
The largest coal-fired power plants keep on going, even as many smaller ones close. By Dan Gearino May 3, 2021
To survive among the shrinking fleet of U.S. coal-fired power plants, it helps to be extremely big.
On April 22, American Electric Power announced that it would close the Rockpo...
By Paul Krugman
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“Change is coming, whether we seek it or not.” So declares a remarkable document titled “Preserving Coal Country,” released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union — which at its peak represented half a million workers — acc...
By Katie Langford
Daily Camera
BOULDER » , according to a new study by University of Colorado researchers.
The study by researcher Zhe Peng and Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences builds on previous research to show that when ...
By Miguel Otárola
CPR News
The Elk Creek mine above the town of Somerset may have closed years ago, but methane gas still silently seeps out of its collapsed walls and into the atmosphere.
Tom Vessels, a former gas executive turned entrepreneur, is on a mission to eliminate that gas from ...
By Matthew Daly and Christina Larson
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » What did the world learn at Joe Biden’s global summit about his vision of the battle to save the world’s climate?
For two days, Biden and his team of climate experts pressed his case that tackling global warmin...
Biden plan would spend $45B to replace lead pipes
By Aamer Madhan The Associated Press
CHICAGO » In the modest bungalows and two-flats of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, there’s never a shortage of needed home repairs staring residents in the face. And then there is the less...
Biden urged to set climate goals
Businesses, investors ask for big cut to emissions by 2030 By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than 300 businesses and investors — including such giants as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Coca-Cola — are calling on the Biden administration to set an...
The Denver Post’s editorial board
America is finally on the right trajectory when it comes to adding, protecting, and utilizing our public lands. In 2019 an epic lands deal was signed into law by President Donald Trump with bipartisan support that added protections to 1.3 million acres of lan...
What’s good for the ocean may also be good for business
By Tatiana Schlossberg
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Marty Odlin, who grew up and lives on the Maine coast, remembers what the ocean used to be like. But now, he said, “It’s like a desert and just within my lifetime.” In the last few year...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, a longtime priority for Western and rural lawmakers from both parties.
Hu...
