By Sam Metz, Janie Har and John Antczak
The Associated Press
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » Favorable weather helped firefighters trying to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching wildfire, but officials warned Wednesday that stiff winds and dry conditions mean that...
House Dems Offer $100 Million to Endangered Species
In a memo just released by the House Natural Resources Committee, House Democrats said they’ll provide $550 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the upcoming budget reconciliation package — including $100 million for some of the rarest...
In the A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.
By Georgina Gustin
September 1, 2021
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As industrial agriculture, mining and logging have barreled across the Amazon rainforest i...
The rapid expansion of batteries paired with wind and solar is transforming the grid and accelerating the transition to clean energy.
By Dan Gearino
September 2, 2021
Vistra's lithium-ion battery system is co-located on the site of its existing Moss Landing Power Plant in Mon...
Climate bankruptcy
Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town.
Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increas...
State wants to reduce emissions from homes, businesses
By Ivan Penn
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California has led the nation in fighting climate change by encouraging the use of renewable energy and electric cars. Now the state is taking on an even harder challenge — reducing emissi...
By Sam Metz and Janie Har
The Associated Press
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildf...
The Denver Post WASHINGTON » A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country.
The Biden administration had already begun the lengthy process of ...
Conservation bank to aid Preble’s meadow jumping mouse
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A first-of-its-kind venture in Colorado is bringing public and private entities together to sustain a tiny mouse whose habitat has shrunk as development, livestock grazing and mining have incre...
By Soumya Karlamangla
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HEALDSBURG, CALIF. » Take a drive through this picture-perfect wine country town and you’ll start to spot them, unsubtle symbols of the state’s extreme drought.
Peeking out from side yards of cottages and behind fences of grand mult...
EFFICIENCY
Colorado State University-Pueblo became the first campus in the state to reach net-zero efficiency last week when the school switched on its 23-acre solar array project.
The solar scheme allows the campus to generate excess energy and put it back into the grid.
“One of ...
By Sam Metz and Brian Melley The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or s...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A Denver oil and gas company is facing about $1.8 million in penalties and the possibility of losing its ability to operate in Colorado after state regulators decided it violated several state regulations.
Next the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will...
Boulder, CO is now offering a shared electric vehicle at its 1500 Pearl parking garage through a partnership with Colorado CarShare.
Colorado CarShare, a nonprofit carshare organization, will pay the costs to charge the vehicle. The city and the nonprofit will split the cost of the vehicle’s annual...
Something extraordinary happened Aug. 14 at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, 2 miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.
The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several...
Amid the haze and despair over the planet’s future, Colorado experts offer hope
By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post
The more Andrés Better studied climate change and its worsening impact on the environment, the more discouraged he became. The Colorado State University freshman abso...
Climate pledges—a step in the right direction for the private sector—too often fall short of transformative change. In his recent Drawdown Insights piece, Executive Director Jonathan Foley offers a new way forward for climate leadership, asking companies to:
1. Cut emissions towards zero, not...
By Kathleen Merrigan The Conversation
Organic food once was viewed as a niche category for health nuts and hippies, but today it’s a routine choice for millions of Americans. For years following passage of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, which established national organic standards, ...
Who created the renewable-energy miracle?
By Paul Krugman
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As terrible as many things in the world are, climate is unique in posing an existential threat to civilization. And it’s horrifying that so many political figures are dead set against any serious action to ...
Companies work to be force of nature on confronting climate change
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Stretches of Colorado rivers closed to fishing because of low water flows and warm temperatures. A decrease in the number of warmer, down-filled jackets sold because of shorter wint...
