climate change
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Oklahoma’s governor picks energy executive Alan Armstrong to fill US Senate seat | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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OKLAHOMA Governor makes US Senate pick OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s governor on March 24 appointed energy executive Alan Armstrong to serve in the U.S. Senate through the end of the year and finish the term of Republican Markwayne Mullin, the new homeland security secretary. The choice by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who had pledged to…
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SCOTUS whisperer? Justice Carlos Samour may get second opportunity to turn state dissent into national precedent
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For the second time in two years, Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr. occupies an unusual position: Having his dissent in a Colorado Supreme Court case potentially forming the basis of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Earlier this week, the nation’s highest court accepted an appeal questioning whether plaintiffs may sue fossil fuel producers under state law…
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2025 Unfiltered: Moments that marked Colorado’s decidedly off-kilter political year
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From the flurry of executive orders that ushered in President Donald Trump’s second term to a blizzard of lawsuits filed by the state’s Democratic officials, the state’s political year was marked by near-constant conflict between the GOP-controlled federal government and the Democrats who run Colorado. The year saw the Trump administration step up immigration enforcement…
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Slouching into reality regarding climate change | SLOAN
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Milton Friedman once quipped that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” To that one may add the histrionics of the environmental lobby. Thirty-five years ago, in 1990, William F. Buckley wrote this gem of a paragraph: “In the 1960s, when the ideological swingers spoke of nothing else than the dangers of strontium…
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Judge dismisses young climate activists’ lawsuit challenging Trump on fossil fuels | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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MONTANA Judge dismisses climate lawsuit BILLINGS — A federal judge on Oct. 15 dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen said the plaintiffs showed overwhelming evidence climate change affects them and that it will worsen…
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Colorado Supreme Court green-lights lawsuit over climate change impacts to Boulder County
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The Colorado Supreme Court permitted Boulder County and the city of Boulder on Monday to proceed with their lawsuit against two fossil fuel corporations over alleged local harms caused by the effects of climate change. By 5-2, the Supreme Court concluded federal law did not preclude the local governments from raising state-level claims of nuisance,…
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Colorado’s Judge Tymkovich moderates panel on public nuisance lawsuits
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A member of the federal appeals court based in Denver moderated a discussion earlier this fall about public nuisance lawsuits, including one pending before the Colorado Supreme Court seeking to hold oil and gas producers accountable for climate change. Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit appeared on…
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Colorado Supreme Court signals possible intervention in lawsuit over climate change impacts
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The Colorado Supreme Court signaled on Monday it may intervene in a lawsuit out of Boulder County seeking to make ExxonMobil liable for damages resulting from climate change, one of many ongoing attempts across the country to hold oil and gas producers accountable for the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. Boulder County and the city of Boulder…
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Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big stakes for climate policy. In campaigns for Congress and for governor around the country, candidates are talking about how green the grid should be. In the debate over how to respond to a warming world, Republicans are promoting an…
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‘Our nation is counting on you’: VP Kamala Harris highlights Denver’s youth climate activists
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“You are the leaders in this climate movement.” That is the message Vice President Kamala Harris offered to Denver students on Friday afternoon in a packed auditorium of Northfield High School, where she highlighted the work of some of the city’s youngest climate activists and encouraged the rest of the country to follow their lead. …
