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The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2020By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUISSECTIONS By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS UPDATED Oct 15, 2020 Over four years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled major climate policies and rolled back many m...
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A new report by Amazon Watch and Brazil's Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB) reveals that six US firms invested US$18 billion into nine companies tied to the destruction of the Amazon and the violation of Indigenous rights.   The financial corporations BlackRock, Bank of America, JPMorg...
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Shared from the 10/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition ALASKA By Henry Fountain
© The New York Times Co.   The Trump administration has relaunched long-delayed plans to conduct a seismic survey in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a prelude to drilling for oil there. The Bureau ...
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Shared from the 10/21/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By The Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D.» Native American tribes opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline once again have asked a federal judge to stop the flow of oil while the legal battle over the line’s future plays out. The Standing Rock Sioux an...
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Shared from the 10/19/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   By Clara Ferreira Marques
Bloomberg Opinion Last month, surfers on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula began to complain of eye pain and corneal burns. Some fell ill. Dead octopus, star fish and sea urchins began to wash up on the beach. Yellow ...
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Prosecutions of environmental crimes have "plummeted" during the Trump administration, according to a new report from the University of Michigan law school. The first two years of the Trump administration had a 70 percent decrease in criminal prosecutions under the Clean Water Act and a decrease of ...
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Shared from the 10/7/2020 The Denver Post eEdition RULING ON ACTING FEDERAL AGENCY CHIEFBy Judith Kohler
The Denver Post Sixty environmental organizations say decisions about management of public lands in Colorado and across the West should be set aside after a federal judge ruled that William Per...
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The Trump administration has acted to repeal or weaken at least 100 environmental regulations over the past four years, including a number of Obama-era climate policies that Mr. Trump has said stifle businesses. The rollbacks include: Fuel-economy standards: The Trump administration ...
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Shared from the 9/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   Colorado has joined a coalition of states and cities in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s rolling back of a federal rule intended to limit emissions of methane and other pollutants from new oil and gas operations. ...
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Shared from the 9/1/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   By Matthew Brown and Travis Loller
The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contamina...
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Shared from the 8/28/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ean Thomas Tafoya
Guest Commentary We learned recently that the Suncor Energy refinery had another “upset” event in which one of its boilers failed, releasing untold quantities of unknown toxic chemicals into the air. We learned this after...
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Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition REDUCED MONITORING By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown and Michael Casey The Associated Press Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for ...
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Shared from the 8/14/2020 The Denver Post eEdition ROLLBACK OF OBAMA RULE  By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON»The Trump administration formally weakened a major climate change regulation Thursday — effectively freeing oil and gas companies from the need to detect and repai...
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By Hiroko Tabuchi, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 17, 2020 The day debt-ridden Texas oil producer MDC Energy filed for bankruptcy eight months ago, a tank at one of its wells was furiously leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. As of last week,...
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The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 9, 2020 SANTA FE»The New Mexico Environment Department has fined an oil and gas company more than $5.3 million for repeated violations of state air pollution standards. DCP Midstream was issued a compliance order Tuesday. A spokeswoman for t...
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The Denver Post eEdition, By The Associated Press, June 17, 2020 HELENA, MONT.» The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a permit program that would allow the disputed Keystone XL pipeline and other new oil and gas pipelines to cross waterways with little review. Ear...
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Shared by The Denver Post, 6-18-2020 By Michael Liedtke
The Associated Press The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric’s long-neglected equipment vilified the company Wednesday as greedy, corrupt and reckless, telli...
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By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post, 6-18-2020 PDC Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $688,500 to resolve allegations that it drilled and produced publicly owned oil and gas in Weld County without obtaining a lease and permit, the U.S. attorney’s office said. A federal investigation focused on allegations...
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By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration has awarded energy companies hundreds of breaks on payments for oil and gas extraction from U.S. lands and the Gulf of Mexico during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government database and federal officials. T...
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Projecting Climate Demands Outside Chase CEO's Home Today is Chase's biggest meeting of the year. Since we can't be there in person, we decided to do something different and project our demands across the street from Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's house last night. https://www.facebook.com/StoptheMoneyPi...
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