clean power plan
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U.S. Supreme Court overturns EPA Clean Power Plan, Polis says ruling won’t affect Colorado
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse emissions from power plants, concluding that an anti-pollution law does not grant broad new powers to the agency. But Gov. Jared Polis said the ruling would not have any effect in Colorado. “Colorado has already locked in the closure of…
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Environmentalists wary of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes
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The Trump administration’s “make America safe through energy independence” plan may be taking hold of eastern Colorado, near the Great Sand Dunes. A news release from the Bureau of Land Management this week said the agency is proposing oil and gas leases on nearly 22,000 acres of federal land across a swath of Colorado. Eleven…
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DeGette links EPA chief’s expensive travel to cutting regulations
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DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette was home in Denver Monday, telling members of the Sierra Club that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to clean up its act and clean up the environment. The Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environment groups announced Monday they will sue…
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THE PODIUM: Donald Trump scored an impressive conservative record in 2017
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A great many, even among those who voted for Donald Trump, openly questioned his conservative bona fides during the 2016 campaign. Some of his most ardent supporters (see Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham) quickly migrated from being the self-appointed enforcers of “Principled Conservatism” within the Republican Party to an unqualified endorsement of the new “Trumpian…
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Let Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ rest in peace
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The Environmental Protection Agency has published official notice of plans to withdraw the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). States will no longer be required to meet the specific carbon emission goals mandated by the CPP and will be free to develop their own goals and emission standards for power plants. That’s the good news:…
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A costly power plan no longer threatens Colorado’s economy
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Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just did a big – though little-known – favor for states like ours that use coal to generate electricity. His decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) lifted a massive regulation from our state’s economy, sparing our industries and households from the effects of…
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Trump’s roadblock on clean power doesn’t detour Colorado
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The Trump administration’s move to scuttle the national Clean Power Plan will have little effect on climate-change efforts or coal jobs in Colorado. Nonetheless, both sides in the Colorado debate brought the heat last week after Scott Pruitt, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said “the war on coal is over.” It’s been…
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Popovich: Energy Department right to study impact of regulations on U.S. power grid
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry hit a raw nerve in Washington recently when he announced his department will undertake a study of the possible impact that federal regulations have had on U.S. electric grid reliability. Essentially, the Department of Energy will look at “critical issues central to protecting the long-term reliability of the electric grid.” The…
