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The Regional Air Quality Council is offering grants to take the gasoline and propane out of mobile food prep as part of Colorado’s ozone and climate change fight. Listen to Morning Edition host Michael Lyle, Jr, discuss this story with Colorado Sun Team Editor Lance Benzel and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.
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Tri-State Generation is reviewing executive orders, but says its plan to close all three coal-fired units at Craig Station is based on economics. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Mark Jaffe and then read the Colorado Sun story at the link below.
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Alliance to Transform Transportation has a plan to provide 2 million metro Denver residents with buses running every 15 minutes, but where the funding could come from is still a mystery. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun editor David Krause and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.
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Rosemarie Russo was questioned and then lost her job after sending frank anti-pollution appeals from residents to Suncor’s Canada headquarters.
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The University of Colorado Boulder wants to spend $43 million to rebuild a heating, cooling, and electrical plant. However, some campus leaders say their input on the project hasn't been heard. Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth reports that staff are saying more can be done to solve CU's pollution problems and embrace green technology.
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Researchers from Colorado State University are calculating emissions for the first time and showing their location in the state. Colorado Sun reporter Shannon Mullane said their goal is to help farmers figure out how to move water more efficiently.
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State air regulators will be taking a closer look this year at methane emissions from Colorado's oil and gas industry. Methane intensity is being measured in nine counties on the Front Range, including Weld, Boulder, and Larimer. Officials say the measurements will help the state meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. The Colorado Sun Editor Lance Benzel joined ʹַ's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on the state's efforts.
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The Greeley-based meatpacking giant JBS is being challenged by a national truth-in-advertising group over its greenhouse gas emissions reduction statements. Essentially, the company is being accused of “greenwashing” its operations by touting an ambitious climate goal that it has no viable plan to achieve.
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A Colorado professor is studying how plants grow under solar panels on rooftops. The research highlights the growing green roof movement — and the challenges cities face in mandating rooftop green space.
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Environmentalists say that some of the largest methane polluters in the state are benefiting from a sleight of hand built into a deeply flawed emissions reporting system. They say those large-scale polluters might not be who you expect, pointing to a little-known natural gas producer called Terra Energy Partners. According to federal greenhouse gas emissions data, this small, privately owned company – headquartered in Texas, but operating exclusively on Colorado’s Western Slope - was the fourth largest source of methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the entire United States in 2019.