colorado clean power plan
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Two Colorado coal-fired power units to close in clean-air deal
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One coal-fired power plant in Colorado will shut down and part of a second plant will stop operating under an agreement that will make deep cuts in air pollution but cost at least 90 jobs over the next decade, officials said Thursday. The Nucla Station power plant in southwestern Colorado and its coal supplier, the New Horizon Mine, will…
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Guv plays down GOP effort to defund air quality division: ‘Lots of opportunity to find compromise’
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At the Colorado Legislature, it is budget season, it is defunding season. Taking up where Republicans on the Joint Budget Committee left off last week, Republicans on the state House Appropriations Committee Tuesday morning voted against an amendment to the “long bill” that would have returned to the state budget $8.5 million used to fund…
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Bill to slow Clean Power Plan implementation advances in state Senate
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State Senate Republicans advanced a bill Monday that would suspend all work underway in Colorado to implement the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan until after the U.S. Supreme Court lifts a stay put in place in February. Senate Bill 157, sponsored by state Sens. John Cooke, R-Greeley, and Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, would also extend legislative…
