Robert Brears Published May 9, 2023
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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...
By Conrad Swanson
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
METRO STARTUP
Father, sons focus on installing home charging stations for electric cars
By Judith Kohler
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“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...
By Kristen Kidd
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
  
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...
Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs climb in American Lung Association’s rankings of most polluted cities
By NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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| 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...
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...
By NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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| 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...
The world's glaciers melted at dramatic speed last year and saving them is effectively a lost cause, the United Nations reported Friday, as climate change indicators once again hit record highs.
This year, we rally behind the theme “Invest In Our Planet”, which highlights the importance of dedicating our time, resources, and energy to solving climate change and other environmental issues. Investing in our planet is necessary to protect it and the best way to pave a path towards a prosperous...
By Ken Ritter and Terry Tang
The Associated Press
PHOENIX>> A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project.
The $233 million pact wit...
Large-scale operations put a lot of pressure on regional power grids
By Gabriel J.X. Dance
The New York Times
Texas was gasping for electricity. Winter Storm Uri had knocked out power plants across the state, leaving tens of thousands of homes in icy darkness. By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly ...
