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By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) on Wednesday outlined plans to advance its clean energy transition business, including spending between $800 million and $1 billion on a facility to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air.The proposed facility, the world'...
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    By Marcy Gordon The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the go...
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  By Brittany Peterson and Matthew Brown The Associated Press DECKERS » Dripping flaming fuel, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado’s South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high. It’s ...
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  Legislators consider plan that would pay businesses, homeowners to install climate-friendly landscapes By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Facing a historic megadrought across the West with no end in sight, Colorado lawmakers, looking for easy and effective ways to conserve water, set their...
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By Brittany Peterson and Matthew Brown The Associated Press DECKERS » Dripping flaming fuel, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado’s South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high. It’s winter i...
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By Noelle Phillips The Denver Post Boulder County’s commissioners hope the process of cleaning up the ash and debris from houses burned in the Marshall fire will begin by the end of March even as a lawsuit over the county’s contract to do the work makes its way through the court system. On Tuesda...
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  Change has impact on water quality, transportation in remote areas By Brittany Peterson The Associated Press GRAND LAKE » With a backdrop of mountain vistas and a rink of natural ice, the annual hockey tournament at Grand Lake offers a picturesque snapshot of Colorado’s beauty. What’s not...
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    By Noelle Phillips The Denver Post The Louisville City Council on Tuesday night decided to allow people who lost homes in the Marshall fire to opt out of new green building codes after hundreds of residents voiced fears that the requirements would increase the cost of rebuilding in...
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  By Victoria Milko and Julie Watson The Associated Press JAKARTA, INDONESIA » The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor. When the water gets too high...
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By John Aguilar The Denver Post As electric cars become an increasingly common sight on Colorado’s roads, the state is ready to target a chunk of the transportation sector that largely has escaped electrification so far — the thousands of buses, trucks and delivery vehicles that belch greenhouse g...
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By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » In the most important environmental case in more than a decade, the Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a dispute that could restrict or even eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to control the pollution that ...
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  By David Biller The Associated Press PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL » Every day, Alex Sandro Condé leaves the shelter where he has been staying since deadly landslides devastated his poor, mountainside neighborhood and seeks out others who have suffered loss. He doesn’t have to look hard. C...
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3.3 billion people’s daily lives “are highly vulnerable” to extreme weather By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the ...
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By Noelle Phillips The Denver Post Colorado will join three other Rocky Mountain states to apply for federal money to create a hydrogen hub that would help Colorado meet its goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next 28 years. Gov. Jared Polis joined the governors of New Mexico, Ut...
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    By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Millions of dollars are headed to Colorado State University to study wildfire prevention, mitigation and recovery, after years of drought and record-setting wildfires across the state. The $20 million grant will be split between CSU’s Colorado For...
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 Extended dry period in the West likely to continue, straining vital water supplies By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Not only is the American West the driest it’s been in more than a millennia, but the megadrought is likely to continue for years, diminishing Colorado’s short water supply and...
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press America’s coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns. By 2050, seas lapping against the ...
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Study says 22-year dry spell has surpassed previous worst from 1500s amid rough times in 2020 and 2021 By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario p...
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  By Matthew Brown, Matthew Daly and Kevin McGill The Associated Press WASHINGTON » A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to put greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries. U.S. District Judge...
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By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post The long-standing lawsuit, in which three Colorado governments argue that the energy corporations Suncor and ExxonMobil “knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis,” must remain in state court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling marks th...
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