Take a deep breath, then add that to the list of things Donald Trump and Colorado Democrats are likely to fight over.

Bruce Finley of the Denver Post reports today that Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission thinks it can meet a 2008 ozone-reduction goal-which Denver and northern Front Range hasn’t met since 2012-by following through on plans to target coal-fired power plants, clamp down on the oil and gas industry and get regular folks behind the wheel of less-polluting vehicles.

Trump said on the campaign trail that he would get drillers drilling and miners mining again by cutting such regulations, which Republicans have said needlessly choke off energy production and continue to weaken coal production. Both have been big-time players in Colorado’s economy in the past, and the GOP would like to see a resurgence.

Finley reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t think Colorado is doing enough to clean up its air.

In his office a couple of days after the election, Gov. John Hickenlooper talked about the state’s goal to accelerate past President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

“We’ve been very careful right from the beginning to say our clean power plan is independent of anything from the EPA,” Hickenlooper said. “We recognize at a mile high our kids and our citizens are more susceptible to the same levels of air pollution than (people) at lower levels. In other words, there are harsher health consequences to the pollution in our air.”

He said Colorado must forge its own path on reducing ozone levels and the particulates that once gave Denver a nationally known “brown cloud.”

“Our goal right from the beginning was ‘How do we reduce the air pollution and not make people’s electric bills go up,’ ” he said.

Hickenlooper said the state hasn’t asked the federal government for financial support.

“In Colorado we should feel an imperative given that we are out of compliance with ozone and we have issues that affect all of our citizens,” the governor said. “It’s not a question of Republican or Democrat. Everyone deserves clean air at the maximum level.”