By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A bill signed into law Wednesday will provide $15 million for what Gov. Jared Polis calls “an important down payment” on helping workers and communities make the transition to a clean-energy economy.
The bill, signed during an event in Pueblo, will...
By Daisy Nguyen
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO » When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid.
Rather than rebuilding poles and wires over i...
By Jack Ewing© The New York Times Co.
The French carmaker Renault on Wednesday became the latest to go all in on electric vehicles, saying that by 2030 all but of a fraction of the vehicles bearing its name will be powered by batteries.
During an online presentation, Renault executives outlined a ...
By Jim Morris and Nicholas K. Geranios
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA » The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest became more apparent as authorities in Canada, Oregon and Washington state said Wednesday they were investigating hundreds of...
Inside the battle to save Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park during last year’s wildfires
By John Meyer The Denver Post
Eight months have passed since Rocky Mountain National Park teetered on the brink of catastrophe due to the devastating East Troublesome wildfire. Burn scars on the...
By Henry Fountain
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BELLVUE » Wrangling a 25-footlong tube of straw up a steep hillside studded with charred pine trees, three volunteer workers placed it in a shallow trench that had been dug along the slope.
Locked in place with wooden stakes, the sausage-like t...
Sunlight tunneled into the room and danced with smoke from Ed Johnson’s cigarette. He sat thinking of his mother.
In 2013, he moved back to the two-bedroom home in Hasty, on the southeastern plains of Colorado, to take care of her.
Johnson, 62, remained in the house after her death...
The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota’s delicate watersheds, urging in a court brief that a challenge brought by local tribes and environmental groups be thrown out.
The closely watched filing ...
By Stanley Reed
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MINETY, ENGLAND » On a clearing at the edge of a farm field, 40 big rectangular boxes the size of shipping containers sit behind a tall fence. Packed inside are stacks of lithium-ion cells and other electrical equipment.
Wired together, t...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling, a rare effort by Democrats to use the legislative branch to overturn a regulatory ...
WorldwidBy Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn
The latest in a seemingly endless series of heat waves around the world hit the Pacific Northwest last weekend and will continue through the week, showing that even regions with cool coastlines and lush forests cannot avoid the blistering extremes of global warming...
By Gretchen Reynolds
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The summer of 2021 came in sizzling, with June temperatures in many parts of the United States shattering records, baking landscapes and prompting those of us who usually exercise outside to question when, how — and if — we should conti...
By Marie Tae McDermott and Giulia Heyward
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Residents of the Western United States have been warned to prepare themselves and their homes for another punishing wildfire season.
A widespread drought has dried out the vegetation and land in several states, priming the...
Some residents are wary of the $1.45 billion system of seawalls and floodgates that will elevate the East River Park and protect 110,000 New Yorkers from coastal storms and flooding.

By Brahmjot Kaur
June 25, 2021
Carlos Jusino has lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for over 35 ...
BILLINGS, MONT. » A punishing drought in the West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers.
Federal agriculture officials are launching what could become their largest grasshopper-killing campa...
By Jaydn Watson-Fisher
Greeley Tribune
Weld County soon will be the home of a 145-megawatt wind farm, adding to a significant investment.
Guzman Energy, an energy provider, and Leeward Renewable Energy, a developer, announced this week they are executing a power purchase agreement for the...
By Livia Albeck-Ripka © The New York Times Co.
The United Nations has recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites that are “in danger,” prompting a fierce reaction from the Australian government, which defended its management of one of th...
By Janet McConnaughey
The Associated Press
AVERY ISLAND, LA. » As storms grow more violent and Louisiana loses more of its coast, the family that makes Tabasco Sauce is fighting erosion in the marshland that buffers its factory from hurricanes and floods. Overall the ef...
By The Associated Press CARSON CITY, NEV. » Camille Touton, a veteran congressional water policy adviser, has been nominated to lead the agency that oversees water and power in the U.S. West.
President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Touton to be the next commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Recla...
By Henry Fountain
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The West this year is locked in an extreme drought that is one of the worst on record. But for a large part of the region, the only thing that makes this year different is the severity of the conditions. Much of the Southwest is in the throes of a...
