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Hickenlooper, Senate GOP in message battle over move to ‘defund’ Clean Power Plan implementation
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Patience is wearing thin at the Capitol around the budget battle being waged over the state’s air quality division, which Republicans have targeted as the main office prepping the ground for implementation the Obama administration’s carbon-slashing Clean Power Plan. Gov. John Hickenlooper has argued that the division’s work is vital to state businesses and he…
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Battle to ‘defund’ Clean Power Plan launches House budget debate
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The first skirmish in the war over the state’s budget Thursday centered on coal and clean air and featured the “defund” politics conservatives have embraced in the Obama era. Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, a member of the Joint Budget Committee, proposed two amendments that would cut funding for the state’s Department of Public Health and…