By Ed Komenda
The Associated Press
SEATTLE>> Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunc...
By Motoko Rich, Lisa Friedman and Jim Tankersley
The New York Times
HIROSHIMA, Japan>> In theory, the world’s largest industrialized democracies have agreed to stop using fossil fuels within a little more than a quarter-century and to switch to new sources of power such as solar and ...
  
POWER PLANT EMISSIONS
Stephanie Arcusa and Klaus Lackner
The Conversation
The U.S. government is planning to crack down on power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, and, as a result, a lot of money is about to pour into technology that can capture carbon dio...
IN BRIEF
U.N.: Likelihood of hitting warming limit is growing
There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will hit a key warming limit temporarily within five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.
But it likely would be only a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with th...
LEGISLATURE
Bills dealing with insurance, building codes, helicopters passed during recent session
By Seth Klamann
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Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insuranc...
By Conrad Swanson
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You might have felt the symptoms before: A pit in your stomach, panic, existential dread, hopelessness, disenfranchisement, frustration and even anger.
Greenhouse gases are seeping into the atmosphere, warming the planet. Polar ice caps are melting, raisi...
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
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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...
