Noelle Phillips
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Colorado is rolling out a new building code aimed at reducing the amount of carbon emissions emitted from homes, offices and other buildings, and state leaders hope the plan will be environmentally responsible without sending construction prices soaring // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Colorado’s new building code is designed to cut carbon emissions. But what will it do to new home prices?
While the new code may add to upfront building costs, state officials hope those are offset by lower utility bills for owners over the years.
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Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, along with U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, all out w/ statements about Gaza’s starvation. Bennet and Hick both signed on to a letter with most of their D colleagues calling for ceasefire, hostage return and permanent end to the conflict:
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Colorado quietly held its first auction of greenhouse-gas credits last month, with 5 companies spending $68,000 to compensate for missed pollution-reduction goals. However, details of the sale remain secret because state regulations prevent disclosure // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
5 companies bid in Colorado’s first greenhouse-gas credit auction, criticized as pay-to-pollute scheme
Colorado held its first greenhouse gas credit auction but details on which companies bought their way out of emissions regulations is unknown.
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Anyone out there experienced problems with their sports-betting habits? I'm interested in hearing your stories of gambling addiction. We can be discreet.
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Join me & other Denver News Guild members July 16 at the Denver Press Club for a mixer. You don't have to be a member of either organization to attend. We welcome all!
Join me & other Denver Newspaper Guild members at the Denver Press Club! You don't have to be a member of either organization to attend. We welcome all!
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"When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the property, and now that waste is leaking hazardous metals into groundwater, threatening nearby drinking-water wells." // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Millions of tons of coal ash are buried underground in Colorado, seeping toxic chemicals into groundwater
When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the property — and now that waste is leaching hazardous metals.
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Exercise early before the heat increases ground-level ozone pollution. Take steps to limit your contribution to the problem. That means less driving!
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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has issued an ozone alert through 4 p.m. Thursday. Because of the heat, air quality along the Front Range will be harmful to people, especially those with asthma and other lung diseases.
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LATEST: The state agency that runs Colorado’s Medicaid program won’t say whether it will turn over requested data about enrollees to the Trump administration — information that could be used to track down undocumented people for deportation.
Colorado won’t say if it will turn over Medicaid data that feds could use to find immigrants
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week handed over personal information about Medicaid enrollees — including immigration status — to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, including Dr. Edwin Asturias, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Aurora.
RFK Jr.’s firing of little-known committee members could mean families can’t afford vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which recommends which shots insurance should cover for specific groups.
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