People with disabilities often are left out of conversations about disaster preparedness, and the recent Marshall Fire put Colorado s emergency managers to the test. Curtis Garrett, disaster preparedness coordinator for Atlantis Community, said the Disability and Disaster Hotline played a key role connecting people with emergency services, in part because state leaders included the disability community in their planning efforts. "The state of Colorado as a whole is really moving forward, and is considered a leader in disaster preparedness and disaster services for individuals with disabilities," Garrett explained. " .
Washington state lawmakers meet in Olympia starting next week for the 2022 legislative session. Groups working on the issue of climate change see it as another chance for the state to take action. Kelly Hall, Washington director of Climate Solutions, said the Legislature has made progress in recent years - including committing the state to 100% clean energy by 2045. .
Just three people remain missing after Colorado's most costly wildfire on record destroyed nearly a thousand homes and businesses in Louisville and Superior.
Record high temperatures, torrential rain, unlikely tornados and devastating wildfires led to record news coverage of climate change in October and November, according to data compiled by a researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Max Boykoff, lead project investigator for the Media and Climate Change Observatory in the university s Department of Environmental Studies, said the language being used to describe the phenomenon is also changing. It s moved from terms like "greenhouse effect" and "climate change," to "climate catastrophe" and "climate emergency." "We ve been finding there s an expanded vocabulary to describe what we re seeing and what we re finding though our research, and what we re discussing in terms of politics and policy," Boykoff outlined. .
Just two people remain missing after Colorado s most costly wildfire on record destroyed nearly a thousand homes and businesses in Louisville and Superior. After the first significant snowfall in the Denver Metro area this winter finally helped snuff out the Marshall Fire, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis reported Sunday that federal and state officials are ramping up recovery efforts. .