Tag: Global Warming
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Colorado fuel retailers face up to $20,000 fine for failing to post warning stickers about global warming under proposed bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save According to a proposal by Democrats at the Colorado state Capitol, up to a $20,000 fine will hang over the heads of every retailer who sells either liquid or gas fuels if they don’t have global warming warning stickers on their pumps and products if…
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Feds invest in Nobel Prize winning technology developed at CU Boulder
A Boulder company just landed federal funding to further develop Nobel Prize winning technology that continuously detects and quantifies methane emitted by oil and gas facilities using a laser that interacts only with methane gas molecules. The U.S. Department of Energy issued a $189 million conditional loan commitment on Jan. 5 to LongPath Technologies, Inc.…
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Colorado aerospace companies land weather forecasting contracts
NASA recently awarded two aerospace companies with a large Colorado presence work on weather satellites that “will ultimately help save lives by enabling even more accurate weather forecasting,” according news releases. Broomfield-based Ball Aerospace will complete two 20-month studies on new instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s “Geostationary Extended Observations” (GeoXO) program. One…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase…