colorado air quality control commission
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Electric-car tax credits are popular — and Congress can’t decide whether to expand or abolish them
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Carmakers haven’t given up on expanding a federal consumer tax credit for electric vehicles. Current law, adopted in 2008, allows for a $7,500-per-vehicle tax credit for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles – up to 200,000 vehicles per manufacturer. Once the cap is met, the subsidy is reduced every six months until it no longer exists.…
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SLOAN | Hick’s new vehicle-emission standards mandate the unattainable
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While everyone was busy focusing on the recently consummated mid-term elections, the administrative state was humming right along, busily devising new and creative ways to micro-manage civilization. Few noticed it, but hovering just below a surface cluttered with insufferable ads, candidates, and ballot measures, was the issue of Colorado’s adoption of California’s Low Emission Vehicle…
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Colorado follows a different drummer on federal emission rules
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WASHINGTON – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment set itself on a collision course with the Trump administration this month when it proposed adopting the California standards for low emission vehicles. The Trump administration wants to largely abandon Obama-era Clean Air Act emission standards, but some environmentally-conscious states want to keep them. So…
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There’s plenty of community-based support for cleaner air in Colorado
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Three years ago, a small group of local governments forged a coalition to push for stronger climate protection policies in Colorado. That coalition, Colorado Communities for Climate Action, is now 20 communities strong. Our member jurisdictions span the Western Slope and the Front Range, municipalities and counties, resort towns and suburbs. They share a commitment…
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California vehicle rules kick Coloradans out of the driver’s seat
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At the heart of the debate over Gov. John Hickenlooper’s recent executive order to adopt California vehicle emissions standards is a simple question: Who should decide what vehicles Coloradans will use in the future for work, recreation or basic transportation? Will there be fines or fees smacked on vehicle owners who will not or cannot…
