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Michael Booth

Michael Booth is the Sun’s environment writer, and co-author of the Sun’s weekly climate and health newsletter The Temperature. He is co-author with Jennifer Brown of the Colorado Book Award-winning food safety investigation “Eating Dangerously.” Booth was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news. He also writes frequently about inexplicable obsessions that include tamarisk, black-footed ferrets and tire fires. Booth also serves as the underpaid driver for four children, and plans to eventually hike every inch of Colorado.

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Proposal to ban gas lawn mower sales in the Denver area is severely cut back

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 19, 20236:36 PM MDT on Sep 18, 2023

State health staff recommends limiting local government use of ozone-creating lawn equipment, rather than the sales ban metro experts want

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Colorado wants to create carbon-capture hubs across the state. But locals aren’t sold.

by Michael Booth 4:29 AM MDT on Sep 17, 20231:10 PM MDT on Sep 18, 2023

State officials are all in on making Pueblo, Yuma and other areas into carbon-capture hubs, for jobs and revenue. But neighbors of the smokestacks don’t want more carbon under their ground.

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Chaffee County gets $4 million from EPA for new recycling station 

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 14, 202312:04 PM MDT on Sep 14, 2023

Big funding boost follows failures of other green efforts for Buena Vista and the surrounding county.

Posted inEnvironment

Cemex fined $357K for Boulder County air pollution violations, faces more probes

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 12, 20236:06 PM MDT on Sep 11, 2023

State inspectors cited a litany of violations in settling with the Lyons plant, while activists continue fighting pollution and alleged land use infractions

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Colorado’s next greenhouse gas cuts target big smokestacks. Will it be enough?

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 11, 202310:47 AM MDT on Sep 11, 2023

The likes of Molson Coors, Leprino Foods and Cargill face new climate rules, but environmental groups say state’s proposal does not protect minorities or even make real cuts.

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EPA fines Suncor for producing fuel with too many pollutants, orders company to pay $600K for clean lawn equipment 

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 7, 20239:19 AM MDT on Sep 8, 2023

The federal agency settlement says Suncor must reimburse residents for buying ozone-trimming lawnmowers and blowers

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New oil and gas rules would raise BLM royalties in Colorado and across nation, demand land protections  

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Sep 6, 20238:24 AM MDT on Sep 6, 2023

Raising fees and cleanup insurance while slowing leasing heartens environmentalists but provokes industry criticism.

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Tests find more Colorado towns’ drinking water is contaminated with “forever chemicals”

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on Aug 31, 20238:01 PM MDT on Aug 30, 2023

Aurora, Thornton, Keystone area say they are altering sources, filtering or preparing treatment plants to fight the PFAS threat

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Colorado revives “cash for clunkers,” offers $6,000 for an old car you trade for an EV

by Michael Booth 6:29 AM MDT on Aug 29, 20233:58 PM MDT on Aug 29, 2023

Piling clunker credits on top of existing state and federal electric vehicle rebates can land you a very, very cheap new car.

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BLM shifts green on 2 million Western Slope acres, setting up Colorado clash of environment vs. oil 

by Michael Booth and Tracy Ross 4:03 AM MDT on Aug 24, 20233:13 PM MDT on Aug 28, 2023

Far bigger chunks of pristine public lands would be walled off from extraction, as federal land managers are ordered to consider climate impacts of activities on land spanning Eagle, Mesa and Pitkin counties

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