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More than 2 million comments collected in support of EPA’s new emissions standards

By | 06.29.12 | 1:23 pm

Conservation groups announced Thursday that they have collected more than 2 million comments — almost 50,000 of them from Coloradans — supporting this week’s landmark ruling by a federal appeals court that upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules for greenhouse gases.

Senator Udall praises first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for new U.S. power plants

By | 03.28.12 | 9:33 am

In a move that could spell the end of additional coal-fired power plants in the United States, the Obama administration proposed new rules Tuesday to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Forest Service pumps brakes on coal mine expansion into Colorado roadless area

By | 02.14.12 | 1:24 pm

The U.S. Forest Service overturned a decision Monday to approve the expansion of a coal mine in western Colorado that biologists feared would destroy wildlife habitat.

Science Sunday: Geoengineering, Parent Talk, Ice Loss

By | 08.19.07 | 7:00 am

Carbon geoengineering may cause drought

One potential method for dealing with global warming that’s developed some legs recently is geoengineering. These are often huge, Rube Goldberg ideas like huge sunshades in space to cool the planet, adding iron to…