Governor Ritter REDI-ing to Retire Coal Plants
All the renewable energy in the world can't and won't make up for the fact that unless Colorado starts cutting back on coal burning, greenhouse gases are going to keep climbing.
All the renewable energy in the world can't and won't make up for the fact that unless Colorado starts cutting back on coal burning, greenhouse gases are going to keep climbing.
Michael Meehan | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green
The US capitalizes on markets, and COP15 is a moment where it must seize the opportunity with climate change. But COP15 also represents an economic risk if we don't act because there are serious contenders abroad.
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal columnist and former adviser to George W. Bush, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Copenhagen climate confe...
William S. Becker | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green
The Obama Administration must get serious about using its regulatory authority to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions well below the levels being considered on Capitol Hill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
Over at the Washington Independent, Mike Lillis pulls a quote from the Republican Study Committee, pushing back on the EPA's greenhouse gas endangerme...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN and CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN — A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries and activists wh...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing ...
Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Here's an international embarrassment waiting to happen. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not only planning to tag along with Obama in Copenhagen, he's going to be a keynote speaker.
Web Ecoist | Posted 11.27.2009 | Green
The planet has a fever and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century. How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific tec...
AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 11.27.2009 | Green
BEIJING — China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade – a...
Sacramento Bee | Jim Downing | Posted 11.25.2009 | Los Angeles
The California Air Resources Board on Tuesday released a preliminary version of its first-in-the-nation "cap and trade" plan to cut greenhouse-gas emi...
Jeremy Nichols | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver
A demonstration called on Governor Ritter to stop clowning around when it comes to confronting global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are actually on the rise in Colorado thanks to Xcel Energy.
Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Considering that the meat industry produces 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transportation systems, we see no reason to back down in our criticism of Al Gore, among others.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective glo...
Tom McNichol | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.
nytimes.com | NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
It's true that food production is an important contributor to climate change. And the claim that meat (especially beef) is closely linked to global wa...
AP | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
DENVER — An environmental group wants a judge to prevent Xcel Energy from firing up a new coal-fired plant in southern Colorado until a court ca...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Soldier On is an organization that works to get homeless veterans off the streets and into housing. One particular housing project will use photovoltaic technology to power its 39 apartments.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The Hill reports that lobbyists met with officials at the Office of Management and Budget to discuss altering proposed environmental regulations on a ...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
The Hill reported Friday that lobbyists met with officials at the Office of Management and Budget to discuss altering proposed environmental regulatio...
New York Times | AD MOUAWAD and ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to com...
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Increasing population pressure in many nations is destroying, directly or indirectly, vitally important carbon storage systems on our planet.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first steps to control climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, factories and refineries.
The EPA proposed a rule Wednesday that would require polluters to install the best available technology to capture greenhouse gases whenever a facility is significantly changed or newly constructed. The rule applies to any industrial plant that emits at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year.
When the rule is final, the EPA said operators of as many 14,000 sources of pollution would have to get additional permits. The EPA action, announced the same day as a climate bill was introduce in the Senate, could put new pressure on Congress to pass legislation to avoid the federal rules.
Sandra Thompson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
It is patriotic to support green jobs -- and we shouldn't need to call them "Red, White and Blue Jobs" to convince anyone otherwise.
Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver