Climate Solutions

A new report predicts the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate and energy provisions will create or preserve 1 million U.S. jobs., including tens of thousands in the Mountain West.

“We're trying to make it easy for non-experts to find and use decision-relevant federal data to map and understand their exposure to climate-related hazards,” says Tom DiLiberto, a climate scientist at the NOAA Climate Program Office.

A group of about 150 energy experts, workers and students gathered in Laramie Thursday, Sept. 15, for a conference called ‘Wyoming’s Energy Future,’ where Wyoming’s Governor Mark Gordon was a keynote speaker.

The Mountain West Innovation Summit began on Tuesday, June 21, in Laramie, with around 75 people coming from all over the country to discuss the future of technology, jobs and energy in our region.

The group is headed to Mount Everest to do climate research with an appreciation of what's at stake, professor Jacki Klancher said.

An updated version of a 2019 report published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday includes an additional 2,800 scientists’ signatures.

While coal producers look to international markets to make up for a soft coal market at home, experts advise that Asian coal demand will not be as strong…