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“It’s a drop in the bucket,” Peter Butler, chair of the Bonita Peak Mining District Community Advisory Group, said of the settlement  CONRAD SWANSON | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 11, 2023 at 12:11 p.m. | UPDATED: May 11, 2023 at 3:20 p.m. The federal government w...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Gov. Jared Polis signs “enormous package” of green energy and climate change bills New greenhouse gas emission goals, tax credits, solar and geothermal programs fill out package 

By NICK COLTRAIN | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 11, 2023 at 6:11 p.m. | UPDATED: May 11,...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire Recent “upsets” like tripped compressors, pressure loss and freezing weather resulted in the thousands of pounds of illegal pollution but no fines or citations from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. By Dylan Baddour May 9, 2...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
    Robert Brears Published May 9, 2023 + Follow Welcome to Our Future Water's newsletter on "Adapting to a Future of Extremes: Green, Grey, and Hybrid Solutions for Urban Water Management," which focuses on the opportunities in urban water management in the face of climate change...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
             By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. One way to save massive amounts of water from the drying Colorado River — state and federal officials had hoped — was to effectively buy water this year from farmers and ranchers with a $125 million conser...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Laurie Goering | Climate Change Editor Waste to watts? Finding new places to put solar power plants can be a challenge, but the U.S. city of Annapolis has come up with a solution: The old garbage dump. The Maryland landfill, closed 20 years ago, "just sat there as a liability", said David Jarr...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just proposed the strongest regulations on vehicle emissions ever, Carol. If you haven’t had time to read about the two proposed rules, here’s a one-sentence summary: They mean cleaner air, healthier communities, and a faster transition away from gas-guzzli...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Mike Ives The New York Times More than 13,000 people have been evacuated from the western Canadian province of Alberta, where unusually warm and dry weather has been mixing with strong winds to fuel dozens of wildfires, officials said Friday. The number of active wildfires across Alberta grew ...
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Posted by on in Green Products/Services
METRO STARTUP Father, sons focus on installing home charging stations for electric cars By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. “I’ve always liked internal combustion engines and I’ve always said there’s nothing like the sound of an American V8.” The declaration by Ron Rooney is a bit unexpecte...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Kristen Kidd This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe to see as many rare birds as possible. So it was on a lark that we decided to drive from our Denver are...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  Colorado cements plan to reintroduce gray wolves but a snag lingers The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 3, 2023 at 2:05 p.m. | UPDATED: May 3, 2023 at 4:46 p.m. Colorado’s plan to capture and release dozens of wolves into the Western Slope’s wilderness is now finalized, though the timeline mig...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  CBy Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Lawmakers from several western states want the U.S. Forest Service to do more to address a wildfire crisis that they say surely will destroy more landscapes, communities and livelihoods as long-term drought persists around th...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
May 2 (Reuters) - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales.The bill is one of the furthest-reaching efforts yet by U.S. Republicans against...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
The New York Times WASHINGTON>> President Joe Biden on Friday announced the creation of a White House Office of Environmental Justice, one of several actions to address the unequal burden that people of color carry from environmental hazards. “Every federal agency must take into account envi...
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Posted by on in Clean Water
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont.>> A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires after environmentalists raised concerns about waterways that are being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry th...
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Posted by on in General Environment
           By Jill Cowan The New York Times Even for a state where a certain amount of weather-related chaos is normal, this winter in California felt relentless. There were catastrophic floods, mudslides, walls of snow, destructive waves, downed trees and, now, potho...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
  Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs climb in American Lung Association’s rankings of most polluted cities By NOELLE PHILLIPS | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 20, 2023 at 11:09 a.m. | UPDATED: April 20, 2023 at 3:48 p.m. Three Colorado cities are going in...
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Posted by on in Forestry
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont.>> The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation’s woodlands from fires, insects and other side ef...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
By NOELLE PHILLIPS | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 21, 2023 at 12:51 p.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2023 at 5:25 p.m. Two natural gas processors doing business in Colorado agreed this week to multi-million dollar settlements with the federal government over continuous viol...
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