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Colorado: Here's our plan for clean air in wild places.
Washington: Nope. You can't close coal plants.
@sambrasch.bsky.social reports from CPR's climate team:
Washington: Nope. You can't close coal plants.
@sambrasch.bsky.social reports from CPR's climate team:
Feds to reject a Colorado clean air plan because it aims to close coal-fire power plants
The upcoming decision marks the latest example of the Trump administration using its authority to buoy the state’s struggling coal industry.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Colorado: Here's our plan for clean air in wild places.
Washington: Nope. You can't close coal plants.
@sambrasch.bsky.social reports from CPR's climate team:
Washington: Nope. You can't close coal plants.
@sambrasch.bsky.social reports from CPR's climate team:
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And from fellow climateer @ishan-thakore.bsky.social,
"During the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale... revealing the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling."
"During the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale... revealing the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling."
Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction gets zero bids in Colorado
The Trump administration wants to expand drilling on public lands, but oil and gas developers expressed zero interest in Thursday’s sale.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
And from fellow climateer @ishan-thakore.bsky.social,
"During the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale... revealing the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling."
"During the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale... revealing the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling."
The protest comes a day after major power shutoffs in Boulder because of extreme fire danger. That forecast -- it's informed by weather and climate data that NCAR collects. Read more at @cprnews.bsky.social
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December 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The protest comes a day after major power shutoffs in Boulder because of extreme fire danger. That forecast -- it's informed by weather and climate data that NCAR collects. Read more at @cprnews.bsky.social
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The NSF is still taking public comments to shape its next Arctic Research Plan. The final document could have broad implications for how the US allocates federal dollars for Arctic science over the next five years: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Request for Public Comment: National Plan for Arctic Research
On July 21, 2025, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published in the Federal Register a document entitled "Request for Public Comment: National Plan for Arctic Research." In response to requests b...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The NSF is still taking public comments to shape its next Arctic Research Plan. The final document could have broad implications for how the US allocates federal dollars for Arctic science over the next five years: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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People, plants, and wildlife must adapt quickly as the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the planet.
Go "Into the Thaw" with Carbondale adventurer Jon Waterman, who taught me about zombie fires and bowing to polar bears.
LISTEN to our interview, produced by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social
Go "Into the Thaw" with Carbondale adventurer Jon Waterman, who taught me about zombie fires and bowing to polar bears.
LISTEN to our interview, produced by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social
Into the Thaw: A Colorado adventurer captures climate change in the Arctic | Colorado Public Radio
For four decades, the Arctic has riveted Carbondale outdoorsman Jonathan Waterman. We discuss melting permafrost, zombie fires, vulnerable communities and hungry polar bears. His new book -- part trav...
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March 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
People, plants, and wildlife must adapt quickly as the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the planet.
Go "Into the Thaw" with Carbondale adventurer Jon Waterman, who taught me about zombie fires and bowing to polar bears.
LISTEN to our interview, produced by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social
Go "Into the Thaw" with Carbondale adventurer Jon Waterman, who taught me about zombie fires and bowing to polar bears.
LISTEN to our interview, produced by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social
"Children who lived within 3.1 miles of wells with high activity faced the greatest risk of developing acute lymphocytic leukemia," reports @ishan-thakore.bsky.social.
"The Colorado Oil and Gas Association strongly objected to the findings and called the researcher's previous work 'misleading.'"
"The Colorado Oil and Gas Association strongly objected to the findings and called the researcher's previous work 'misleading.'"
Colorado study suggests that proximity to oil and natural gas wells increases risk of childhood leukemia
The study builds on a small body of previous research, but Colorado’s oil and gas industry strongly disputes the findings.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This week for @cprnews.bsky.social I covered the huge gathering in Boulder to protest cuts to @noaa.gov. It was a show of solidarity for a critical climate agency. Thanks for the share @maddow.msnbc.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This week for @cprnews.bsky.social I covered the huge gathering in Boulder to protest cuts to @noaa.gov. It was a show of solidarity for a critical climate agency. Thanks for the share @maddow.msnbc.com
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“They’ve been hinting at this for quite a while,” Di Liberto said. “You see what’s happened in other agencies to science and scientists, where they are basically just trying to get rid of everybody.” www.cpr.org/2025/02/27/f... via @sambrasch.bsky.social & @ishan-thakore.bsky.social #copolitics
Federal cuts include employees in Colorado NOAA-affiliated offices, including at a critical space weather center in Boulder
People could be heard crying in NOAA’s David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“They’ve been hinting at this for quite a while,” Di Liberto said. “You see what’s happened in other agencies to science and scientists, where they are basically just trying to get rid of everybody.” www.cpr.org/2025/02/27/f... via @sambrasch.bsky.social & @ishan-thakore.bsky.social #copolitics
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Great write-up by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social on how Colorado scientists are responding to the cancellation of the National Nature Assessment.
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Trump dismantled a first-of-its-kind nature report. Colorado scientists are still hopeful it will be released
The National Nature Assessment was meant to document how the country’s lands, waters and wildlife benefit Americans, and how climate change might change that picture.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Great write-up by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social on how Colorado scientists are responding to the cancellation of the National Nature Assessment.
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For @coloradopublic.bsky.social, dug into how the fate of two EPA climate projects in the state diverged
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#climate #fundingfreeze
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Two Colorado EPA projects meet two different fates under President Trump’s funding freeze
Two federal grant recipients, in Pueblo and Longmont, highlight how a federal funding freeze is still rippling throughout the state, despite being lifted by courts.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
For @coloradopublic.bsky.social, dug into how the fate of two EPA climate projects in the state diverged
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#climate #fundingfreeze
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#climate #fundingfreeze
Our small but scrappy @coloradopublic.bsky.social climate team dug into how uncertainty and shifting directives are pausing a range of important projects through Colorado. check it out
Trump orders fuel new uncertainty around Colorado climate and infrastructure projects. Here’s what we know www.cpr.org/2025/01/28/t... via @ishan-thakore.bsky.social, @sambrasch.bsky.social & @nbminor.bsky.social #copolitics
Trump orders fuel new uncertainty around Colorado climate and infrastructure projects. Here’s what we know
Hundreds of millions of federal dollars are now at risk as the administration orders pauses to projects across the state.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Our small but scrappy @coloradopublic.bsky.social climate team dug into how uncertainty and shifting directives are pausing a range of important projects through Colorado. check it out