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Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.
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“How large would Colorado be if I used a giant rolling pin and rolled it flat to 1 inch thick?”
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A new paper finds that current wildfire suppression policies can increase fire severity as much as decades of fuel accumulation and climate change. Using fire models, the area burned annually grew much faster under the current suppression policy when compared to a policy of allowing low- and moderate-intensity blazes to burn.
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Methane is a strong climate-warming pollutant. And a new study shows oil and gas operations in the Mountain West and beyond are leaking a lot more of it than the government thinks.
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In the U.S., transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A new report ranks which cities are doing the best job at driving down those emissions.
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A new study brings clarity to a long-running debate over whether mountains produce carbon dioxide or remove it from the atmosphere.
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Prescribed fires and mechanical thinning efforts are increasingly common land management tools intended to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. However, research into their long-term effectiveness is somewhat limited. A recent study looked at the effects of such interventions over more than 20 years on a dry, low-elevation research forest in Montana and found that the combination of thinning and burning was the most likely to reduce fire risk.
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Weather is one of the most important and dynamic factors at play in wildfires, and it is the job of incident meteorologists to provide up-to-date forecasts so that the crews and managers can stay safe and accomplish their management goals.
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The Western Governors' Association has been looking for ways for its member states to reduce their carbon footprint. One thing they're exploring is how government buildings are built and whether carbon can be stored in concrete.
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The federal government says this is the nation’s warmest winter on record. And a new study shows human-caused climate change was the driver in many cities, including parts of the Mountain West region.
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Oil and gas drillers are releasing more climate-warming methane than the government estimates, a new study shows.
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In Silverton, the tangled debate over how — and whether — to protect wetlands in town goes on and onThe Silverton board of trustees has been grappling with how to handle its wetlands amid a desperate need for housing since 2022. After pausing construction while they figure it out, they’re at it again.