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By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Calling it transformative, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association released a plan Wednesday to boost its renewable energy sources to 50% by 2024 and cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 90% by 2030 fr...
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
Tourists at Lake Conjola, a popular holiday destination in Australia, take refuge on a beach from wildfires Tuesday. This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia’s history, with at least 1...
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This short, sweet and informative climate change IQ quiz was developed by The Universal Ecological Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting climate action, its easy, fun, informative and as we need widespread involvement of all persons, ...
By Alice Mannette
The Hutchinson News
WINDOM, KAN.» With a nudge toward the past, Kansas farms are using bees once again to increase crop health.
During the early 1900s, bees were prevalent in the state. Jorge Garibay, a beekeeping consultant from St. John, and others want to increase their number...
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By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
PARADISE, CALIF.» First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton’s house and killed 85 people in her community.
Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from 1...
The evidence mounted all year. All-time temperature records were broken in France, Germany and elsewhere; the Greenland ice sheet experienced exceptional melting; and, as 2019 came to a close, broiling temperatures contributed to devastating wildfires that continue in Australia.
Now European scient...
Shared from the 1/3/2020 The Denver Post eEdition, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Brown and Ed White The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 year...
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ORLEANS, MASS.»The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, among the rarest and most endangered of the seven species of sea turtles, was found motionless shortly after high tide on Cape Cod’s Skaket Beac...
Shared from the 1/8/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
A national oil and gas trade group is kicking off a campaign to tell the industry’s story in face of concerns about climate change and proposed fracking bans, and the CEO says Colorado is part of his ...
U.S. Emissions Dropped in 2019:
By Nicholas Kusnetz
JAN 7, 2020
Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States dropped last year after a sharp increase in 2018, new data released Tuesday show. The drop resumed a long-term downward trend driven chiefly by a shift away from coal power generati...
By Sierra Club Environmental Law Program. Gaslight Edition Trump Watch re Environmental Rollbacks and Actions
White house officials suppress State Dept testimony that human caused climate change will be "possibly catastrophic"
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that "most of t...
By Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for InsideClimate News.
The findings of the study, published Tuesday, support those from other recent studies that found the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels—including coal—to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees soaring g...
The year 2019 was the hottest on record for Australia with the temperature reaching 1.52C above the long-term average, data from the Bureau of Meteorology confirms.
The year that delivered crippling drought, heatwaves, temperature records and devastating bushfires was 0.19C hotter than 2013, the pr...
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IWAKI, JAPAN»The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped through northern Japan in March 2011 took so much from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal c...
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WASHINGTON» Nuclear industry hopes of one day bringing small, factory-built nuclear power plants to communities and industrial sites have cleared a first regulatory hurdle with the Trump administration, over objec...
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TOKYO» Japan on Friday revised a roadmap for the cleanup of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools ...
by Angela Logomasini | December 21, 2019
If you are looking to find some eco-friendly holiday gifts and decorations this year, be careful what advice you follow. Intentional or not, many suggestions about “eco-friendly” products are faulty because they are driven more by political preferences...
The Trump administration is systematically remaking U.S. policies toward public lands, moving aggressively to open protected areas for development – from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, to the red rock country of Utah, to the nation’s largest national forest in Alaska.
BY JIM ROBBINS
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“WAR ON PLASTICS”
A public hearing on the proposal is slated for Dec. 16 By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Denver’s proposed fee for single-use bags is just the beginning of what City Council President Jolon Clark envisions as a “war on pla...
