By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration on Friday said it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species once found across much of the U.S. West that has suffered drastic declines in recent decades because of oil and gas...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can walk the climate walk and push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through th...
By Débora Álvares
The Associated Press
BRASILIA, BRAZIL » President Jair Bolsonaro and Environment Minister Joaquim Leite knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate had surged before the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, but kept results quiet to avoid hampering negotiations...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday.
Fires in Sequoia National Park a...
As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look
By Brittany Peterson and Sam Metz
The Associated Press
Around the U.S., cities increasingly are warming to an idea that once induced gags: Sterilize wastewater from toilets, sinks and factories, and eventually pipe it back into homes ...
Critics of proposed reforms fear bills could fall to taxpayers
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Proposed reforms meant to ensure taxpayers don’t get stuck paying to clean up oil and gas sites could leave the public open to eventually covering billions of dollars in costs, environmentalist...
By James Anderson
The Associated Press
As gray wolves are under pressure from a federal delisting and increased hunting in some Rocky Mountain states, Colorado wildlife officials heard detailed options Thursday for implementing a voter-approved reintroduction of the species west of...
By David A. Lieb
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. » States will soon be flooded with federal money to address a pent-up need to repair, improve or remove thousands of aging dams across the U.S., including some that could inundate towns or neighborhoods if they fail.
The roughly $3...
President Joe Biden has chosen Boulder’s KC Becker, the recent speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, for a top job in the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a news release Thursday, the White House announced Biden intends to appoint Becker to be administrator of the EPA’s Regio...
By Ann Carrns
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Home heating bills are expected to be significantly higher this winter, but there’s still time to take steps to make your living space more energy efficient and hold down costs.
The recent spurt of inflation is being driven, in part, by spikes in the...
How leather seats in luxury SUVs fuel deforestation of the Amazon
By Manuela Andreoni, Hiroko Tabuchi and Albert Sun
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BURITIS, BRAZIL » One morning this summer, Odilon Caetano Felipe, a rancher who raises cattle on illegally deforested land in the Amazon, met with ...
By Aamer Madhani and Tom Krisher
The Associated Press
DETROIT » President Joe Biden punched the accelerator on a battery-powered Hummer on Wednesday, causing the wheels to squeal and the truck to jet forward as he tried to drive the country toward an electric vehicle future.
The engine wa...
By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS » Energy companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, as the first government lease auct...
By Will Costello
Reporter-Herald
Loveland leads the state in residential recycling, according to a new study from the Colorado Public Interest Research Group and Eco-Cycle, a nonprofit recycler.
Mayor Pro Tem Don Overcash said during a Zoom webinar with CoPIRG and Eco-Cycle on Monday that...
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Why two Nos may still make a Yes.
There are (at least) two ways to see the final days of the UN’s COP 26 climate conference and the Glasgow Climate Pact it produced.
Was it yet another example of the developed world turning a blind eye to the very real suffering of dev...
By Jim Robbins
Kaiser Health News
The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air pollution success story. But in some parts of the country, especially in the heavily populated mountain valleys of the West, the odorless, col...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration was moving to block new federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, one of the nation’s oldest and most culturally significant Native Ame...
By Jim Tankersley
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law Monday, a bipartisan victory that will pour billions into the nation’s roads, ports and power lines.
While the bill stopped short of realizing his full-s...
Activists have filed a complaint with the UN’s Human Rights Council, saying member nations have supported unsustainable population growth that is dangerously warming the planet.By Elena Shao
November 16, 2021
Cassie King grew up in San Diego, the daughter of loving parents, and she’d wante...
