The Denver Post’s editorial board
America is finally on the right trajectory when it comes to adding, protecting, and utilizing our public lands. In 2019 an epic lands deal was signed into law by President Donald Trump with bipartisan support that added protections to 1.3 million acres of lan...
By Sophia Eppolito The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY » For decades, a public lands tug-of-war has played out over a vast expanse of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive twin buttes bulge from a grassy valley.
A string of U.S. officials...
By Patty Limerick, Luis Benitez and Alison Rose Jefferson
Columnist for The Denver Post
The Department of the Interior has been nicknamed “the department of everything else.” Since so many secretaries have come from the American West, we Westerners understand where that nickname comes from. Try to...
By Lisa Friedman © The New York Times Co. The Denver Post
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration is taking the unusual step of making a public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science, drawing up a list of dozens of regulatory decisions that may...
By Timothy Egan © The New York Times Co. Shared in The Denver Post
Over the pandemic year, people took to appreciating the renewable delights of this ragged and tortured planet like never before. In this country, many national parks saw record crowds in 2020, and 8 million more Americans...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.
Unlike past U...
Western voters agree on many concerns, including wildfires, loss of pollinators
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
A 61% majority of voters across Colorado and seven other states in the West are more worried than hopeful about nature, pointing to climate change impacts, and 57% plan to get outdoors ...
A federal court on Monday overturned the Trump administration’s signature environmental policy, a regulation that critics said was aimed at crippling the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enact new clean air and water protections.
The order by Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Cour...
Shared from the 9/24/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
DEREGULATION CHALLENGES By Lisa Friedman and John Schwartz
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DEREGULATION CHALLENGES By Lisa Friedman and John Schwart© The New York Times Co.
WA...
Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Veronica Penney
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Ka Young Lee, The New York Times
If you take an airplane trip, can you make up for the planet-warming emissions from that flight by doing things like driving less and turning off the lights in your house...
By Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post eEdition, July 23, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a major public lands bill introduced by Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Yuma. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Denver Democrat, was a co-sponsor of the legislation. Great Am...
The New Yorker, By Bill McKibben, June 9, 202,
Most weeks, we talk about how to save the world, which seems the only accurate way to put it, given that we’ve just lived through the hottest May in recorded history and that the carbon-dioxide levels in our atmosphere just hit a new high, unmatc...
Earth Protect is pleased to announce the appointment of Laurel Manley, 4th year student at Colorado State University who is majoring in Biological Science and Ecosystem Science & Sustainability. Laurel will be with Earth Protect across the summer working on content development, dissemination and...
Apr 1, 2020 Conservation International
Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world at lightning speed, infecting more than 900,000 people and killing more than 40,000 people to date. Protecting nature will be critical to preventing future pandemics, some scientists say. W...
Shared from the 2/26/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Describing windows rattled by industrial blasts and windowsills covered in toxic ash, an African-American resident of Texas’ oil hub joined Democratic lawmakers, state offi...
Shared from the 2/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Eighty percent of voters in Colorado and seven other Western states prioritize air, land, water and wildlife issues as key factors in electing leaders, including more than four in 10 who say the environment is v...
Shared from the 2/11/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Diana DeGette and Gina McCarthy
Given the divisiveness of our politics these days, it may seem hard to believe that protecting our environment hasn’t always been such a highly partisan issue.
In fact, just a half a century ago, members of Con...
Bad driving isn’t just unsafe. It’s expensive. Studies have repeatedly shown that personal driving habits are the single biggest factor that affects vehicle fuel consumption. Adopting new and improved driving behaviors not only makes car travel safer, it can contribute to significant savings at the ...
