University of Colorado
By Matt Burgess •
Published: March 19, 2024
Climate change matters to more and more people–and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election
If you ask American voters what their top issues are, most will point to kitchen...
By Elise Schmelzer
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Denver’s new mandates for building electrification earned the city the second-place spot in a new ranking of the country’s top cities with climate-friendly policies.
A report set for release Tuesday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Econo...
Company wants to extract gold, silver from waste; locals skeptical, alarmed

By Elise Schmelzer
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LEADVILLE>> Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 feet, peeki...
By Jack Graham | Climate change and nature correspondent, UK
Deforestation amnesty
Brazil and Colombia's dramatic reduction in deforestation last year was hailed worldwide as a major step in the right direction.
Under President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, forest loss in Brazil's Amazon rai...
•Deepen the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government commitment to environmental justice. The new Executive Order makes clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated into their missions. It also affirms that environment...
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President Establishes New National Monuments in Nevada and Texas; Directs Secretary of Commerce to Consider Expanding Protections for Pacific Remote Islands Which Would Reach Goal of Conserving 30% of U.S. Ocean by At the White House Conservation in Action Summit today, President Biden wil...
IMMIGRATION
By Pepper Trail
Writers on the Range
Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting … now.
The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and the rules are simple. The object of the game is not to die. And the winners, well, the wi...
By MATTHEW DALY (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical that is widely used as a paint stripper but is known to cause liver cancer and other health problems.
The EPA said its action ...
By Angela Dewan, CNN
4 minute read
Updated 10:26 AM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024
CNN —
The Group of Seven nations announced Tuesday its member nations would end the use of “unabated” coal by 2035, but left the door open for countries to stretch that deadline in particular contexts.
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Agreement calls for dropping of bills and ballot measures
By Seth Klamann and Nick Coltrain
The Denver Post
Leading Colorado Democrats and the state’s oil and gas industry announced a preemptive armistice Monday — one that seeks to defuse the latest round of dueling ballot initiatives and legisla...
Daily Camera
The University of Colorado Boulder released a plan on Thursday outlining steps to achieve a 50% reduction in campus emissions by 2030 and a reduction to zero emissions no later than 2050.
“The Climate Action Plan basically sets us on a path to get us to zero emissions by 2050,” said C...
  
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
The Biden administration’s move on Thursday to limit pollution from coal-burning power plants is a major policy shift. But in many ways it’s one more hairpin turn in a zigzag approach to environmental regulation in the ...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired electric plants are the B...
By Jack Healy
The New York Times
LA PAZ COUNTY, Ariz.>> In Arizona’s deeply conservative La Paz County, the most urgent issue facing many voters is not inflation or illegal immigration. It is the water being pumped from under their feet.
Giant farms have turned Arizona’s remote deserts abou...
SOLAR FUNDING
Biden announces $7B in federal grants
By Alexa St. John and Will Weissert
The Associated Press
TRIANGLE, Va.>> President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-inc...
  
SOLAR INDUSTRY
Hopes of domestic boom clouded
Surge of cheap exports from China upending U.S. clean energy sector
By Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, annou...
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2024 at 9:51 a.m.
Utilities that provide drinking water to nearly 268,000 Coloradans will need tens ...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and re...
By Wendy Keefover
Writer’s on the Range
It’s legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf’s mouth shut and paraded th...
By Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they reliably can be measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for...
