Fort Collins-based AtmosZero is using brewer to pilot a drop-in heat pump system that could help reduce the carbon footprints of other similar companies that account for 7% of U.S. greenhouse gases.
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Big buildings in Colorado will now be on an energy and pollution diet
Air quality board approves sweeping demands on 50,000 sq. ft. properties to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Opinion: “Clean hydrogen” is anything but
Colorado is falling for a federal infatuation with a technology that is distracting us from the renewable energy sources we actually need.
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All climate change is local, Boulder summit says. But solutions also have to be global.
Promising stories of civic action and harrowing warnings of what happens if citizens fail to step up delivered during Right Here, Right Now symposium in Boulder
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Opinion: Colorado must move quickly to keep pace on carbon capture
Promoting safe and secure injection of CO2 is in the public’s interest, and Colorado is poised to be central in the effort.
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Colorado is falling behind on its mandate to cut greenhouse gases
New state assessment shows big gaps in goals for transportation emissions and lag in finalizing closures of fossil fuel power plants
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Colorado could stuff its CO2 deep in the ground to slow climate change
Colorado has snuffed the carbon-spewing smokestacks of some of its most noxious coal-fired plants. It’s tasked the oil and gas companies with plugging methane leaks in pipelines and capping carbon-weeping abandoned wells. And the state wants belching, gas-fueled V8s to turn themselves in for EVs with no tailpipe. Now, in another potentially crucial push to […]
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How much damage does climate change cause in Colorado? Leaders are trying to put a price tag on it.
The East Troublesome fire, Colorado’s second largest ever, was sweeping across Grand County forests on Oct. 25, 2020, part of a record-breaking wildfire season that forced evacuations, destroyed homes and took lives. Half a world away, heavy rains were flooding the Bagerhat District in Bangladesh, in one of the worst monsoon seasons on record. And […]
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As climate fight shifts to oil, Joe Biden faces a formidable foe in the West
By Mead Gruver and Matthew Brown, The Associated Press CASPER — President Joe Biden’s bid to tackle climate change is running straight through the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry — a much bigger, more influential foe than Democrats faced when they took on the coal industry during the Obama years. Coal dominated […]
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An environmental group claims 70% of Colorado’s greenhouse gas emissions come from oil and gas. But that’s in dispute.
In what is becoming a running skirmish between environmental groups and the Polis administration over how to curb the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, a new analysis calculates that 70% of all the gases come from oil and gas operations and calls for the shutdown of the sector by 2030. The figures used in the […]