MONTANA
Lawsuit challenging pro-fossil fuel policies in state is heading to trial
By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown and Drew Costley
The Associated Press
HELENA, Mont.>> A Montana judge on Friday said a climate change lawsuit from young people challenging the state’s pro-fossil fue...
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 |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2023 at 6:11 p.m. | UPDATED: May 11,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
By Bruce Finley
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Mountain snow-melting intensified this week with an unusually abrupt “flick of the switch” from cold to hot, leading to flooding that on Thursday cut off northwestern Colorado’s main transportation route and forced the shutdown of schools.
The statewide heat...
BERLIN>> Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations.
The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists wa...
By Nic Coury and Stefanie Dazio
The Associated Press
WATSONVILLE, Calif.>> A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummeled the ...
By Michael Phillis and Kathleen Ronayne
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif.>> In its latest ambitious road map to tackle climate change, California relies on capturing carbon out of the air and storing it deep underground on a scale that’s not yet been seen in the United States.
The pla...
By Kalene McCourt
Daily Camera
When tragedy strikes, art has a way of providing a bit of comfort and solace.
Artist Anne Gifford — who has lived in and around the Boulder County community of Marshall for over four decades — took to her canvas after last year’s Dec. 30 blaze wiped out more than 1,...
CALIFORNIA
An “atmospheric river” dumps heavy rain, snow
SACRAMENTO>> A powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of California on Saturday, snarling traffic and closing highways as the state prepared to usher in a new year.
In the high Sierra Nevada, as much as 2 feet...
CLIMATE CHANGE By Sophie Austin The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, calif.>> California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to drastically cut reliance on fossil fuels by changing practices in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, but cr...
By Sophie Austin
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, calif.>> California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to drastically cut reliance on fossil fuels by changing practices in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, but critics say it doe...
By María Teresa Hernández
The Associated Press
RAPA NUI, Chile>> The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time.
Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai — the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Ra...
The American West is currently the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, a new study found
By CONRAD SWANSON |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: February 21, 2022 at 3:07 p.m.
Not only is the American West the driest it’s been in more than a...
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We are proud to share the Colorado Latino Climate Justice Policy Handbook. This is the first of its kind: a bilingual informational guide about the status of the climate crisis in Colorado and the struggles that face the Latino community alongside it.
Download the Colorado Lati...
By Frank Jordans, Seth Borenstein and Kelvin Chan
The Associated Press
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT>>
U.S. climate envoy John Kerrymet Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at the annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt in a further hint of improving relations between the world’s top t...
By Megan Rowling | Just Transition Editor
As the COP27 climate summit kicked off, U.N. boss António Guterres didn't mince his words. "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” he warned the 120 or so assembled world leaders.
And just in case they dared to think...
