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 By Elena Becatoros The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece>> The nightmare repeats itself every year: A towering wall of flames devours forests, farmland and homes, forcing animals and people to flee for their lives. With their hot, dry summers, Greece and its southern European neighbors exp...
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By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them....
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  By Tara Copp The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> No harmful levels of carcinogenic PCBs were found inside the missile launch facilities at F.E. Warren Air Force base in Wyoming, the service said Tuesday, as it looks for possible causes for cancers being reported among its nuclear missi...
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By David Sharp and Jim Morris The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia>> Firefighters battling wildfires in Canada on Saturday sought to stop flames that swept through the West Kelowna suburbs in British Columbia, forced the evacuation of a university campus and fouled the air with t...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
By Lisa Friedman The New York Times The Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico. The Trump administratio...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management in the San Luis Valley filed a whistleblower complaint Monday, saying her bosses are failing to enforce livestock grazing rules on public lands and are jeopardizing the ecosystem along the Rio Grande Ri...
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By Audrey McAvoy, Claire Rush and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii>> Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for — a st...
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Posted by on in Transportation
Environmental analysis of potential impacts of hauling crude oil insufficient, court finds By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Development has paused on a proposed railway that would haul millions of gallons of crude oil through Colorado after a federal appeals court on Friday found sign...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
The Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement agreement with Suncor Energy after the federal agency found multiple flaws in the Commerce City refinery’s safety reporting systems during a 2020 inspection. The EPA’s inspection followed a 2019 malfunction that caused the refinery to spew as...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Olga R. Rodriguez and Haven Daley The Associated Press PARADISE, Calif.>> Residents driven from their homes by one of the deadliest wildfires in recent history had one request before they would rebuild in the small mountain town of Paradise: warning sirens to bolster town emergency system...
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           FOREVER CHEMICALS More communities take makers to court as costs start to pile up   By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. CASTLE ROCK>> They stand at least 30 feet tall and 10 feet across, eight giant baby blue tanks filled with what is th...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
  Rain hurts some wheat growers, helps others; produce faces bumpy road to market By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Late summer is prime time for Colorado produce that people look forward to for months and typically the end of the harvest for one of the state’s biggest crops: wheat. T...
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           YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories>> Thousands of residents fled the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ahead of an approaching wildfire Thursday, some driving hundreds of miles to safety and others waiting in long lines for emergency flights, ...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
BLACK SEA As more dead dolphins wash ashore, Ukraine builds a case against Russia By Marc Santora The New York Times ODESA, Ukraine>> The victim was found along a stretch of beach near the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine early this summer, cause of death unknown. As a light rain fe...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
Smoke spreading from fires in Canada and the Pacific Northwest on Thursday morning obscured the blue skies north of metro Denver, and residents may have smelled smoke. National Weather Service meteorologists said smoke particles will be thickest over the northeastern corner of the state. Only light...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Olivia Doak Daily Camera Paleontologists, led by a University of Colorado Boulder professor, discovered a new tiny mammal in northern Alaska that lived in extremely cold temperatures during the age of the dinosaurs. The tiny fossil mammal lived about 73 million years ago and is guessed to have...
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  By Aldo Svaldi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A wet year may have provided a mental reprieve, but Colorado continues to have more homes at risk from wildfires than any state besides California, according to the Wildfire Risk Report from CoreLogic. And within Colorado, metro Denver and Colorado Sp...
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Posted by on in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands
Biggest reservoirs at just 36% capacity; negotiators race toward long-term fix   By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Federal officials on Tuesday temporarily eased Colorado River water use restrictions due to a “lucky” year of increased precipitation, but drought and overuse remain a...
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Posted by on in Green Products/Services
Back to school time does not have to mean more plastic. Below are our top 5 tips for starting the school year with as little plastic and waste as possible, Beyond Plastics    1. Invest in Reusable Foodware For Plastic-Free, Zero-Waste Snacks and Lunches   Plastic sandwich bags, pa...
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By Christopher Flavelle and Manuela Andreoni The New York Times The fires in Hawaii would be shocking anywhere — killing at least 89 people, in one of the deadliest wildfires in the United States in modern history. But the devastation is especially striking because of where it happened: in a state...
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