- Thanks to a changing climate and forest conditions, Polis said Colorado could no longer limit its plans to a limited set of months. Intensified efforts to prevent and battle fires would need to continue year-round.
- Scientists can use the snowpack to predict the amount of water that will run through streams and river channels.
- A coalition of environmental groups called on Gov. Jared Polis to dismiss Garry Kaufman, who has led Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division for over a decade.
- “It's blown my budget for, certainly for our gas for the year,” said executive director Connie Howard.
- “There's only so much people can take before we’re challenged to be resilient in the face of so much stress coming at us.”
- Xcel Energy said natural gas prices surged to 100 times the normal cost by Feb. 12.
- Pneumatic controllers monitor temperature and liquid levels in thousands of oil fields across the country — and their bursts of natural gas add up.
- Together, the CORE Act and the Colorado Wilderness Act would expand protections to more than a million acres of Colorado lands.
- Experts predict a long decline for those fossil fuels, but workers in the industry want to ensure they are protected if their jobs are one day put at risk.
- Fires, heat waves, cold snaps and cyberattacks could all require a “harder” power grid.
- The new bill comes amid continued reports of the spread of microplastics and after restaurants stocked up on bags and containers for takeout during the pandemic.
- Even in recent years, Colorado wildfire incident management teams had no multilingual members and information was not translated into Spanish.
- Sin embargo, tan solo en 2018, se los consideraba secundarios cuando se trataba de alertas sobre incendios forestales mortales.
- The move could eventually slash greenhouse gas emissions and government revenue, but it’ll take some time.
- President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and rescinded a permit for the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
- “This year took things to a new level,” said state climatologist Russ Schumacher.
