Tag: environment
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Trump administration sees 7-degree rise in global temperatures
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON • Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century. A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4…
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Trump administration sees 7-degree rise in global temperatures
WASHINGTON • Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century. A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with pre-industrial levels would be catastrophic, according…
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Toxic algae found in Colorado reservoir
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GUNNISON — The National Park Service says unsafe levels of a type of algae that can be harmful to humans have been found in the water of a central Colorado reservoir. Park officials said they detected the presence of toxins that can be produced by…
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Toxic algae found in Colorado reservoir
GUNNISON — The National Park Service says unsafe levels of a type of algae that can be harmful to humans have been found in the water of a central Colorado reservoir. Park officials said they detected the presence of toxins that can be produced by algae blooms in water samples taken from Blue Mesa Reservoir.…
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State to cap free spring water available in Teller County for decades, citing water rights violation
FLORISSANT • Rumors that have been circulating among Teller County residents were confirmed Tuesday night at a Florissant Water and Sanitation District board meeting: The free spring water that flows continuously from a spigot on the side of South Colorado 67 at Gillette Flats will be capped in November and public use prohibited. What’s considered…
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State to cap free spring water available in Teller County for decades, citing water rights violation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FLORISSANT • Rumors that have been circulating among Teller County residents were confirmed Tuesday night at a Florissant Water and Sanitation District board meeting: The free spring water that flows continuously from a spigot on the side of South Colorado 67 at Gillette Flats will…
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Colorado ballot initiative could blunt local land-use rules, officials warn
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Local officials and municipal attorneys say they are worried a proposed constitutional amendment backed by the Colorado Farm Bureau and the oil and gas industry will blunt ability of cities, towns and counties to make many land-use decisions. The measure is Initiative 108. Backers are…
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Palmer Lake institutes emergency water restrictions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Palmer Lake residents cannot water their lawns or wash their cars until further notice due to emergency water restrictions. The town’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to implement the Stage 2 restrictions because a broken water pump has left one of the town’s wells…
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Left won’t take Gardner at his word on support for parks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Environmentalists are hitting U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner where it hurts him most: on Colorado’s great outdoors. Part of the charm and, I’d argue, success of the Republican farm boy from small-town Yuma is his affability and the inability of the left to get his goat.…
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Calif. governor declares emergency as fires rage throughout state
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save IDYLLWILD, Calif. • Fire stoked by hot and windy weather raged through a forest in far northern California on Thursday. In mountain communities east of Los Angeles, calmer conditions aided firefighters on the lines of a suspected arson wildfire that forced thousands of people to…