By Deborah Swearingen
Daily Camera
Community Foundation Boulder County is preparing to distribute $28.5 million of the money collected in the Boulder County Wildfire Fund, with up to $20 million earmarked specifically for Marshall fire rebuilding efforts.
However, though talks are ongoing...
By Viniece Jennings
The Conversation
When many people think of New Year’s resolutions, they brainstorm ways to improve themselves for the year ahead.
What if we expanded those aspirations to include resolutions that benefit our communities, society and the planet, too?
It might not be a typical ...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration was moving to block new federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, one of the nation’s oldest and most culturally significant Native Ame...
By Jim Tankersley
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law Monday, a bipartisan victory that will pour billions into the nation’s roads, ports and power lines.
While the bill stopped short of realizing his full-s...
By Alan Fram and Zeke Miller
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to...
By Mary Clare Jalonick
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.
Here’s a breakdown of the bill:
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By Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski
The Associated Press
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, LA. »
On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground — a place he fears will disappear.
He point...
STOCKHOLM » Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, and Klaus Has...
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that rece...
By David Keyton, Frank Jordans and Christina Larson The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM » Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules — an approach now used to make a variety of compounds, in...
By Lauren Hirsch
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Engine No. 1, the activist investment firm that made its name by successfully taking on Exxon Mobil, announced Monday that it has taken a stake in General Motors. Unlike its bruising battle with Exxon, the purchase was pitched as a show of support ...
2019’s protests were unprecedented, driven by passion. The pandemic dampened activism and showed the importance of mass events in spurring political change. Is a comeback at hand?
By Bob Berwyn, Delger Erdenesanaa
September 24, 2021
The first global Fridays For Future climate strike of 2021 will ...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Marcus Luscher’s 30-acre property northeast of Nederland was still smoking when he bought it about five years ago, after the Cold Spring fire swept through.
As his dog, Local, gnawed a leftover piece of charred wood late Friday morning, Luscher pointed out where ...
By Ruth Maclean
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YAATAAH, NIGERIA » When the women arrived in the quiet waterside village of Yaataah on an afternoon in May, some local young men hurried over to them. They offered to carry the women’s loads — old rice sacks and tin basins full of ...
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By Kelli Duncan
The Vail Daily
After opting out of an updated Climate Action Plan prepared by the Climate Action Collaborative, the town of Eagle on Tuesday came out with its own, seemingly more ambitious sustainability goals.
The Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday evening a...
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is touring Colorado this weekend to promote our public lands, celebrate needed additions to our recreational economy, promote water conservation and explore the possibility of moving the Bureau of Land Management out of Colorado and back to Washington D.C.
We e...
By Janet McConnaughey
The Associated Press
AVERY ISLAND, LA. » As storms grow more violent and Louisiana loses more of its coast, the family that makes Tabasco Sauce is fighting erosion in the marshland that buffers its factory from hurricanes and floods. Overall the ef...
