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PNS Daily Newscast - January 19, 2020
The Biden inauguration speech seen as a potential launching point for a resilient democracy; an increase in mental distress noted in Virginia.
2021Talks - January 19, 2021
Trump expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations today. Biden and Harris celebrate MKL and prep for first days in office. Voting rights legislation introduced in Congress could expand access to voting and reduce partisan gerrymandering.
Public News Service - CO: Energy Policy
Click to downloadDENVER -- Five years after the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, environmental activists in Colorado are urging the Biden administration to not only rejoin the agreement on Day One, but go beyond it. In the past four years, the Trump administration has rolled back hundreds of environmental p
DENVER -- Latino voters, regardless of partisan differences, support legislation that makes real and lasting climate progress while also growing the economy, according to a new poll from Latino Decisions and Environmental Defense Fund Action. Scientists have warned time is running out to change co
DENVER -- The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has approved a set of new rules conservation groups say will help greatly in efforts to protect wildlife from new energy development. In 2019, Colorado passed legislation installing paid, professional regulators as commissioners. And John
GOLDEN, Colo. -- Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden are researching how planting wildflowers, clovers and other vegetation at solar farms can help improve water quality. Megan Day is the lab's senior energy planner. She said instead of laying gravel, which requires re
DENVER -- Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals, many on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, are asking Americans to help them tackle the growing health impacts of a warming planet. This week more than 4,300 health experts from Colorado and all 50 states published an
DENVER -- On the heels of another summer plagued by dangerous heat, drought and fires, some of Colorado's top leaders are speaking out against the rollback of clean-car standards. Just as the COVID-19 pandemic took over the country, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule reversi
DENVER -- The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is taking public comments on new rules aiming to minimize harm to the state's wildlife. Suzanne O'Neill, executive director of the Colorado Wildlife Federation, said her organization largely supports the proposed rules. But she pointed t
DENVER -- With winter just around the corner, Colorado's communities of color and low-income families are disproportionately at risk of seeing their power cut off due to unpaid utility bills. Thousands of jobs were lost in the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, and energy use spiked du
