By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, a longtime priority for Western and rural lawmakers from both parties.
Hu...
Lawmakers deal with competing legislation
By Alex Burness
The Denver Post
Colorado lawmakers have a decision to make: Ban single-use plastic bags and foam takeout containers from many restaurants and retailers, or keep the plastics as an option but have food service packaging...
The New York Times, In summer 2019, when joking about omens of the apocalypse still seemed fresh and fun, an endless swarm of grasshoppers descended on the Las Vegas Strip.
For weeks, after sunset, their flapping wings filled the Sky Beam shining up from the pyramid of the Luxor casino, and their d...
By Fabiola Sánchez The Associated Press MEXICO CITY » At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat has begun visiting its favorite plants in this metropolis of 9 million.
The National Autonomous University’s botani...
By Jonathan Lemire, Kevin Freking and Zeke Miller The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH » President Joe Biden wants $2 trillion to reengineer America’s infrastructure and expects the nation’s corporations to pay for it.
The president landed in Pittsburgh on Wednesday to unveil what would be a hard-hatte...
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WASHGINTON » President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan represents an enormous effort to protect Americans from climate change, but it sidesteps one of the most immediate and wrenching dilemmas: Deciding not just where to spend more m...
By Scott Sonner
The Associated Press
RENO, NEV. » A federal judge has blocked a Nevada project that would expand livestock grazing across 400 squares miles, of some of the highest-priority sagegrouse habitat in the West and accused the government of deliberately misleading the public by ...
Complaint: Pollution measures relaxed by CDPHE leadership
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado officials responsible for controlling air pollution this month ordered employees to stop measuring surges of harmful sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulates, according to a whistle...
By Jonathan J. Cooper
The Associated Press
PHOENIX » As states across the U.S. West beef up their renewable energy requirements, a push to do so in Arizona has been met by fierce resistance from the Republican governor and GOP-dominated Legislature, which are looking to strip ele...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Legislation that’s designed to expand the use of renewable energy in Colorado by steering utilities to join regional transmission networks could also help if a big freeze or other extreme weather strains the state’s energy supply.
Sen. Chris Hansen said the bill h...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration is moving to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the East Coast, saying Monday it is taking initial steps toward approving a huge wind farm off the New Jersey coast as part of an ef...
Action to protect people and their homes lags
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Australia, now battling its worst floods in more than half a century, has failed to adapt fast enough to the growing threats it faces from the impacts of climate change, with its people ...
By John Flesher The Associated Press
MECOSTA, MICH. » For generations, Brian Sackett’s family has farmed potatoes that are made into chips found on grocery shelves in much of the eastern U.S.
About 25% of the nation’s potato chips get their start in Michigan, where reliably cool air during Se...
By Nicholas Kristof
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The Rev. Rick Joyner is a famous evangelical leader who has called on Christians to arm themselves for an inevitable civil war against liberals, whom he suggests are allies of the devil.
But this is the awkward part: His five children would be on the o...
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 Jim Robbins
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HELENA, MONT. » In addition to its spectacular landscape of mountains, rivers and prairie, Montana, the third-least populous state in the country, has long been known for something else — wildlife policies that have protected animal...
By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
Newly confirmed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland kicked off a forum Thursday on a review of energy development on public lands and waters by saying that “fossil fuels will continue to play a major role in America for years to come.”
However, Haaland, who signed ...
By Derrick Bryson Taylor © The New York Times Co.
The bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, researchers said this week, underscoring decades of efforts to protect a species that was once on the brink of extinction.
There were an estimated 316,700 bald eagles ...
By Kevin McGill The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS » Thirteen states sued the Biden administration Wednesday to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters and Western states.
The ...
Ad agencies are walking away from industry By Tiffany Hsu
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It is night. A little boy opens the door to his father’s room. “Dad, I’m scared,” he says. The father carries the boy back to his bed, tucks him in and clicks on a night light. “It’s only human to care for thos...
