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.

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:

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.

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."

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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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

“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

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.

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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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.

For @coloradopublic.bsky.social, dug into how the fate of two EPA climate projects in the state diverged

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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