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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...
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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 8/7/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Bruce Finley
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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 8/30/2020 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...
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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 ...
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Officials recommend constructing “safe rooms” for protection against particulates By Bruce Finley
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Beyond wildfire smoke, the air quality in Denver has deteriorated as residents also are barraged with infusions of multiple ...
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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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OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN ALASKA Trump administration finalizes plan to open refuge to drilling By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain
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WASHINGTON»The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up part ...
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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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...
Shared from the 8/18/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Coral Davenport
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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...
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,...
Emily Holden the Guardian -Energy companies have leased 9.9m acres from the administration – and the fossil fuels extracted could equal half a year of emissions from China
The Trump administration has offered oil companies a chunk of the American west that’s four times the size of Califor...
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Take a deep breath – you can do this Small actions by residents can add up quickly to improve air quality By Sue McMillin Columnist for The Denver Post-extract
Here is what you can do.
• Refuel your vehicle during cooler even...
New York City’s ban on fossil fuel projects is the largest municipal ban of its kind, ever. New York City has been a strong trendsetter for climate policy for years. When New York City announced its intent to divest its massive pension from fossil fuels two years ago, it set off a wave of divestment...
QUICK FACTS • When humans burn fossil fuels, we release greenhouse gases (like carbon dioxide and methane) into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat, warm our planet, and throw our natural systems out of balance. • But it’s not just our atmosphere getting warmer—global sea surface temperatures are ...
ESPAÑOL January 05, 2016 Sarah Engler Plastic, of course, is uniquely problematic because it’s nonbiodegradable and therefore sticks around for a lot longer (like up to 1,000 years longer) than other forms of trash. And we're not just talking about people dumping their garbage o...
A new book “Blowout” ties this all together, corruption of democracy, rogue state Russia and the richest most destructive industry on earth, laid out for all to see. Our environments, health and the fate of our world depend upon we the people to demand full public disclosures of fossil fuel companie...
