Michael Booth
Writer at The Colorado Sun
Part of @Coloradosun crew for health, environment & all things interesting. Hiker. Driver for large family. Dad jokes are free.
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12 hours ago |
coloradosun.com | Michael Booth
A Colorado Senate committee Wednesday killed a bill that would have required health and climate change warning labels on gasoline pumps in the state. The measure had the backing of dozens of environmental groups but faced fierce opposition from industry and the governor’s office.
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1 day ago |
coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Michael Booth
Happy Wednesday, Colorado, and welcome to a policy-packed edition of The Temperature. The lilacs in my Denver neighborhood are in bloom, and that means I’ve been spending a lot of time smushing my nose into bushes in strangers’ yards. There’s something about the annuality — annualness? — of their blossoms that is reassuring, like a memory water slide whooshing directly back to carefree spring and summer days of youth.
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1 day ago |
coloradosun.com | Michael Booth
Things you will hear and smell at Hallie Dantzler’s coffee truck: A Hal’s Coffee barista offering you a vanilla shot with your latte. Locally roasted coffee beans wafting your way on the steam emanating from the espresso machine. Things you will not hear and smell:Bellowing gasoline generators or acrid petroleum fumes.
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2 days ago |
coloradosun.com | Michael Booth
“The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.”“Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.”“Eighty-Nine Millions Acres of Abrupt Climate Change.” The terrifying beetle-kill headlines from the mid-2010s were as relentless and depressing as the swaths of rust-red dead lodgepole on your favorite drives or hikes in Grand County. Coloradans wondered if their beloved forests would ever recover from the onslaught of bark-boring pests, and if tourism would suffer a big bite.
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3 days ago |
montrosepress.com | Michael Booth
The Trump administration last Wednesday proposed a rollback of Endangered Species Act protections that left Western wildlife advocates sounding gutted but vowing to fight in court, arguing the erasure of decades of habitat defense threatens species from the lynx to black-footed ferrets to cutthroat trout.
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