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New research reveals that even a “mid-transition” to electrified transportation could have outsized health and economic benefits for Black and Latino residents. By Aydali Campa September 20, 2023 Electrifying just 30 percent of all light- and heavy-duty vehicles in the lower Great Lakes region co...
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Posted by on in Transportation
A small city ended its bus service to find out By Jeff McMurray The Associated Press When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride. M...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Coral Davenport The New York Times If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases. New controls on ...
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Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand   By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
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Posted by on in Human Health
By Nicholas Kristof © The New York Times Co. World leaders are gathering this week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. This week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes. As leaders discus...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Somini Sengupta The New York Times MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS>> The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious. Among them: End extreme poverty and hunger. Ensure every child on Earth gets a quality secondary education. Achieve gender equality. Make significant inroads in tackling climate change....
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Posted by on in Mining
Proposal would change 151-year-old law related to hardrock minerals By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  Harnessing the Power of People to Fight Ocean Trash In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals around the globe, the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC) engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Thanks to millions of volunteers around the world...
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By Sam Metz and Rick Bowmer The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY>> It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring — find their way to Ella Branham. ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
$1 billion or more events The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities. T...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
By Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa>> The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Rac...
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Posted by on in Animals
Urban animals can’t take the heat By Emily Anthes The New York Times For many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in concrete and carved up by car traffic. As buildings go up and roads are laid down, some species seem to vanish from the landscape, and animal communities...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
UNITED NATIONS By Manuela Andreoni The New York Times Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-r...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  By Alan Henceroth and Geoff Buchheister Guest Commentary Hitting the road before dawn, quietly waiting in the cold to nab one of the first chairs up the mountain, all in the hope of capturing that exhilarating sensation that only skiers and snowboarders know — when the stars and snowpack a...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Anthony Ham The New York Times A male saltwater crocodile approached a female saltie — as they’re known in Australia — in the same enclosure at Australia Zoo. He snapped at her aggressively. But then in a change of heart that wasn’t what you’d expect from one of Australia’s most fearsome preda...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT By Suzie Romig Pilot & Today When State Climatologist Russ Schumacher presented a preview of the Climate Change in Colorado assessment update to a conference audience in late August in Steamboat Springs, he said the statewide annual temperature has warmed by ...
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Posted by on in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands
    By Jesse Bedayn The Associated Press/ Report for America Utah officials have pushed the Great Salt Lake to the brink of an ecological collapse because they allowed upstream water to be diverted for decades to farmers growing alfalfa, hay and other crops, according to a lawsuit file...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
LONGMONT By Matthew Bennett Prairie Mountain Media On the morning of Sept. 12, 2013, Dale Rademacher departed Vance Brand Airport on a helicopter ride that he remembers as if it were yesterday. Record rainfall was about to generate flooding in Longmont, and Rademacher, who was the city’s directo...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
In its most aggressive move yet to protect federal land from oil and gas exploration, the Biden administration announced Wednesday it would prohibit drilling in 13 million acres of pristine wilderness in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and cancel all drilling leases in the Arctic National W...
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