Even while the country is in the midst of the unprecedented COVID-19 health emergency, the Trump administration has taken the time to roll back vehicle emission standards, throwing out critical public health and environmental protections that were meant to benefit all of us.
Unfortunately, General ...
Shared from the 4/1/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ellen Knickmeyer and Tom Krisher
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WASHINGTON» The Trump administration’s rollback of mileage standards Tuesday marks a win for Americans who like their SUVs and pickup trucks, but the government’s own estimates show big c...
By SUSANNE RUST, ROSANNA XIA
MARCH 28, 20207:53 AM
As gray whales began their northern migration along the Pacific coast, earlier this month — after a year of unusually heavy die-offs — scientists were poised to watch, ready to collect information that could help them learn what was killing them.
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Daniel Rothberg March 30th, 2020 - 12:10pm
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied Endangered Species Act protection for the bi-state sage grouse, an iconic bird that roams western Nevada and eastern California, according to a document filed on the Federal Register website Monday.
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Shared from the 3/31/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON»The Trump administration is expected Tuesday to announce its final rule to roll back Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards, relaxing efforts to limit climate-warming tailpipe poll...
SB. Sustainable Business Updates, March 30, 2020
While the government stalls under pressure to provide necessary aid to the millions affected by COVID-19, a silver lining to this pandemic is being revealed as more and more businesses exemplify efforts to put people before profit.
Businesses large ...
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By Sam Brasch
Colorado Public Radio
CRAIG» (Making the most of your local assets to transition to a sustainable new economy) Walter the dinosaur doesn’t look like an economic savior. At the moment, he’s not even a fully ex...
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FARGO, N.D. » A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a full environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline, nearly three years after it began carrying oil despite protests by people who gathered in Nort...
Shared from the 3/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Anne Barnard © The New York Times Co.
The Somerset Operating Company in Somerset, N.Y., will close this month, spurring a debate over alternative energy projects. BARKER, N.Y.»
It is the last coal-fired power plant in New York. White...
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WILDLIFE Judge asked to force decision on U.S. wolverine protection By Matthew Brown
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BILLINGS, MONT.»Wildlife advocates on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to force the government into deciding if the snow-loving w...
Shared from the 3/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Nina Burleigh © The New York Times Co.
For years, whenever I found myself in Miami with an afternoon to spare, I sneaked off west to where a road abruptly separates the urban grid from the Everglades. Depending on time, I drove as deep int...
“It is strange to think of a sea turtle as an ecosystem,” says Amanda Feuerstein, program coordinator and research assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, “but they are…they have all of these other animals living on their skin and shells.”
Feuerstein is co-author of a rec...
Shared from the 3/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Asta Bowen Writers on the Range
As if its year-round wildfires weren’t enough, California is leading the way toward a zombie apocalypse. But unlike flames roaring across the landscape, this apocalypse is happening quietly, just below t...
Shared from the 3/11/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Mark Buchanan Bloomberg Opinion
The biggest cause of global warming is all the carbon dioxide we have expelled into the atmosphere since the beginning of industrial times.
The greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere, raising temperatur...
March 09, 2020 David Wallinga, MD
The field of public health began more than 160 years ago when a physician named John Snow, who believed the epicenter of a London cholera outbreak was a contaminated public well on Broad Street, acted to change that environment. He took the handle off the Broa...
Meat companies are now asking: Eat your veggies By Dee-Ann Durbin Shared by The Denver Post. The Associated Press
Meat companies are making it easier for you to eat your vegetables by blending them into burgers, meatballs and sausages.
Applegate is introducing a line of meat-and-veggie b...
Shared from the 3/16/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ellen Rosen © The New York Times Co.
Welcome to the expanding sector of remanufacturing. The practice essentially involves taking products or components, whether in disrepair or at the end of their useful lives, to a like-new condition. Acc...
Shared from the 3/12/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» A Canadian company said Wednesday it has started preliminary work along the route of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline through the U.S. in anticipation of starting construct...
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EMINENT DOMAIN By Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON» The federal government is giving local officials nationwide a painful choice: Agree to use eminent domain to force people out of flood-prone homes, or forfeit a shot at fe...
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By Mark Buchanan Bloomberg Opinion
The biggest cause of global warming is all the carbon dioxide we have expelled into the atmosphere since the beginning of industrial times. The greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere, raising te...
