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Created: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:38:07 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
Suncor's refinery malfunctioned 108 times over the past five years. That's an average of about one breakdown every three weeks -- visible when putrid yellow grit wafts over Denver.
Created: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 13:00:08 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
As exploding COVID-19 numbers close down indoor dining in more than two dozen Colorado counties, restaurants are once again turning to pickup and delivery orders as their lifeline to staying in business. But with that surge in to-go eating comes yet another -- if rarely mentioned -- scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic: mounds and mounds of takeaway trash.
Read more: Indoor dining restrictions aren’t helping Colorado’s recycling problem
Created: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:26:19 +0000
Author: Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Brown
The Trump administration moved forward Friday on gutting a longstanding federal protection for the nation's birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will likely perish as a result.
Read more: Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections
Created: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:19:01 +0000
Author: The Associated Press
From 2018 to 2019, the state’s recycling rate dropped to 15.9% from 17.2%, far below the national average of 35%, according to an annual report released by Eco-Cycle and the Colorado Public Interest Research Group.
Read more: Colorado recycling drops, and state is working to fix that
Created: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:11:49 +0000
Author: Deb Riechmann, Aya Batrawy
President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet.
Read more: Trump slams Paris climate agreement Biden intends to rejoin
Created: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:00:34 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Brighton and Adams County teamed up with The Conservation Fund this week to preserve 79 acres of farmland along 144th Avenue and Sable Boulevard, just south of Brighton, in a traditionally agricultural area recently designated as Historic Splendid Valley.
Read more: Brighton, Adams County preserve nearly 80 acres of farmland from development
Created: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:00:42 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
"A water issue for Thornton is not just a Thornton issue. It's an issue for surrounding communities too. There's no benefit to having one community short on resources."
Created: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:09:47 +0000
Author: Katie Langford
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have found that climate change spurred wildfires across much of the planet millions of years ago, with implications that human-caused climate change could have similar impacts in the future.
Read more: CU researchers link prehistoric wildfires to climate change
Created: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:33:23 +0000
Author: Matthew Brown
A U.S. federal court once again blocked new oil and gas drilling permits on Wyoming public lands in a ruling Friday that rebuked the Trump administration for its “sloppy and rushed” analysis of climate change impacts.
Read more: Judge blasts Trump administration’s “sloppy” climate analysis in oil case
Created: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:00:27 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
As climate warming clobbers the West, Colorado officials facing rising costs from wildfires, shrinking water supplies and worsening air pollution are embracing the shift from the Trump administration to a Biden team they see as more aligned with state environmental priorities.
Read more: Colorado looks to Biden for help tackling climate and environmental challenges