Increasing the ability to divert organic material from landfills in Routt County will be vital to meet local climate goals, and meaningful change may require government involvement, according to a study commissioned by Routt County.
Nearly 100 people in Northwest Colorado have signed on to a solar co-op that received funding from local governments in an effort to further goals outlined in the Routt County Climate Action Plan. Steamboat Springs.
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Routt and Moffat counties continue to be in extreme and exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, perpetuating from the hottest and driest summer on record last year. Dry antecedent conditions like these are troubling heading into any winter, but combined with what is turning out to be a snow drought winter season across the western U.S., which is how forecasters are characterizing the current dry and cold La Nina winter conditions, we are likely and gravely looking ahead to a drier and hotter 2021 summer season. The effects of climate change are known to us here in the Upper Yampa River Basin.