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Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact
The Conversation
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August 26, 2025
When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”...
Like Reagan, Trump is slashing US environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact
The Conversation
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August 26, 2025
When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”...
Report: Colorado wildfires bigger, more frequent
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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August 26, 2025
Click play to listen to this article. The Lee Fire just northwest of Rifle has become Colorado’s fifth-largest in recorded history and a new report from Colorado State University suggested large-scale wildfires will be more frequent and less...
Georgia Tech Safety Spins Question About Colorado Elevation Into Excuse To Bash Culture
BroBible
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August 25, 2025
© Brett Davis-Imagn Images / © Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Audio By Carbonatix Georgia Tech will open its 2025 college football season in Boulder against Colorado. The Yellow Jackets will not be intimidated by the opposing environment. Safety...
Commentary: Xcel’s transition away from coal is an opportunity to achieve 100% clean energy in Colorado
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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August 26, 2025
Xcel Energy’s recent decision to close its coal power plants across the state by 2030 puts Colorado at an important crossroads. The closing of these power plants, most notably Comanche 3 in Pueblo, presents an opportunity to transition our state...
Map Reveals Toxic Pollution Leaking from U.S. Drilling Sites
Yale E360
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August 25, 2025
Scientists have shown that U.S. oil and gas drilling sites are not just leaking methane but also a host of toxic chemicals that pose an urgent threat to the health of those living nearby. A new interactive map details the impact of hundreds of...
Are There Lizard People in Denver Airport? Inside the Denver Airport Conspiracy
Travel Awaits
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August 26, 2025
Of course, there aren’t any lizard people at Denver International Airport. Videos by TravelAwaits At least, not that anyone can prove. But the Denver Airport conspiracy, which revolves around the idea that there are lizard people roaming the...
Oakley opens new store in River North Arts District, Denver
Retail Insight Network
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August 26, 2025
Sports apparel and accessories company Oakley has opened a new store in Denver’s River North Arts District (RiNo) in the US state of Colorado, offering a “first-of-its-kind, immersive shopping experience” to both athletes and artists. The retail...
Review: Sweet & Lucky: Echo is an Underwhelming Grief Trip
Westword - Colorado
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August 28, 2025
When I first started covering Colorado’s immersive theater scene in the 2020s, there was one production people wouldn’t stop talking about: Sweet & Lucky. Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center produced it in 2016 with Brooklyn-based...
Your Guide to Ouray
5280 Magazine - Colorado
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August 28, 2025
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. The Odometer: Roughly 301 miles, one way from Denver (5 hours, 30 minutes) Ouray offers one of the greatest reveals in all of Colorado. Arriving from the...
Federal rollbacks and urban pollution threaten the air at Utah national parks
KUER - Utah
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August 26, 2025
Every Tuesday, Bryce Canyon National Park scientist Rhiannon Garrard gives the park’s atmosphere a weekly check-up. At the air quality monitoring station on a hill above the canyon rim, she checked off her mental to-do list on a recent August...
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
Carbon Brief
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August 28, 2025
1 “Solar only produce[s] power when the sun is shining,” as the prominent climate-sceptic commentator Bjorn Lomborg wrote in a 2024 article in Canada’s Financial Post. Variations of this statement are still regularly found in materials produced by...
State carbon fees could cut electricity prices, research finds
E&E News
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August 28, 2025
Several states could cut electricity bills by charging power plants for their climate pollution and giving the money to ratepayers, a new report said. Using carbon fees to subsidize utility costs could save households $62 to $250 per year,...
Bill aiming to pause Colorado wolf reintroductions passes — with amendments allowing program to continue
Denver 7 - Colorado
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August 25, 2025
DENVER — New legislation that aimed to pause Colorado's gray wolf reintroduction program and reallocate some of the funds underwent amendments — ultimately allowing the program to continue as planned — and is now headed to the governor's desk....
Lessons Learned: Grenada’s Social Development & Gender Affairs PS shares with NEMA insights into Hurricane Beryl response
Win Media SKN
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August 28, 2025
by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN)—The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) continued to use Hurricane Beryl as a cautionary tale for the citizens and residents of the Federation in its series “From Danger to Safety”. Continuing the...
Conservation efforts ongoing to save lesser prairie-chicken
Fort Morgan Times - Colorado
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August 28, 2025
A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this medium-sized bird with a round body and small heat,...
Day Five of Special Session: Colorado legislature moves key measures forward
The Denver Gazette - Colorado
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As artificial intelligence legislation remained in limbo, Colorado's legislators turned their attention on several other measures during Monday's special session, notably debating a change to a measure bill to set aside $100 million to help lower...
Capturing the spirit of Northwest Colorado: Local photographer Janele Husband reflects on art, community and Craig’s creative future
Craig Daily Press - Colorado
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Over the last four decades that Janele Husband has called Moffat County home, she has been a teacher, musician, photographer and advocate for the role of the arts in Northwest Colorado. On Friday, she unveiled a photographic exploration of the...
Local ag experts fear climate change effects on food sustainability
Yuma Sun - Arizona
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August 23, 2025
Local agriculture experts fear that climate change could impact food sustainability, as they expressed during an event held at the Yuma Agricultural Center, a 514-acre research farm owned and operated by the University of Arizona through its Yuma...
Arizona Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegally Guiding Hunts in Colorado
The MeatEater - Montana
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August 25, 2025
Timothy Rawlings of Laveen, Arizona is facing a year in federal prison after getting busted for illegally outfitting hunts in Colorado—and a slew of other wildlife infractions. According to a Department of Justice press release, Rawlings was...