renewable energy
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Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big stakes for climate policy. In campaigns for Congress and for governor around the country, candidates are talking about how green the grid should be. In the debate over how to respond to a warming world, Republicans are promoting an…
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Polis to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment at Colorado facilities
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Gov. Jared Polis is seeking to lower the state’s gas and water usage one lawn at a time. Polis signed an executive order on Wednesday requiring state facilities to phase out the use of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment, replacing them with electric equipment by June 2025. This includes anything from push lawn mowers to…
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Land swap completed for construction of renewable energy campus in Golden
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Gov. Jared Polis’ plan to build an epicenter for renewable energy development took another step forward on Thursday, with the completion of land swaps for his Global Energy Park to be constructed on. The “Glo Park” campus is intended to house companies and universities focused on the development of and transition toward clean, renewable, sustainable and…
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Xcel gets the green light for $2 billion power line expansion
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission gave Xcel Energy permission to spend at least $2 billion to build up to 650 miles of new high-voltage power lines in southern and eastern Colorado to serve windmills and solar farms. The company’s customers will pay for the new transmission lines through what’s called the Transmission Cost Adjustment rider…
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What’s next for Colorado’s controversial commuter reduction plan
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Colorado’s controversial plan to reduce single-occupied vehicle commutes among metro Denver’s large companies isn’t dead, but it’s taken on a new life. The Colorado Department of Health and Environment’s Air Quality Control Commission stood poised to finalize a whole slew of regulations that would have required metro area businesses to track how their employees were…
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Polis to congressional panel: Climate change is ‘an existential threat’
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BOULDER ? Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told a congressional climate-change committee’s field hearing Thursday that he considers global warming to be “existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and eco-systems and our very way of life.” Polis was the lead speaker in a morning of testimony taken at the University…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Rural electric cooperatives look at cutting the cord
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Aug. 3. Luis Reyes drove up to Durango from Taos, New Mexico, on a sunny April day in 2017 to tell folks how the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which he heads, left…
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Polis among 1,400 U.S. candidates running on phaseout of fossil fuels for power
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By Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner Jared Polis is far from the only candidate running in America’s midterm elections who wants to transition the U.S. electricity system away from fossil fuels. More than 1,400 candidates running for every level of government office this November have committed to some form of transition to 100 percent clean, zero-emissions…
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FEEDBACK | A week worth celebrating; a tax hike worth torpedoing
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Amendment 73: Massive tax increase is missing accountability As the former chair of the House Education Committee, I was always a champion for teachers and students. As co-chair of a Legislative Study Committee which included outside research for financing our schools, I fought to be sure our schools received adequate resources. Also as a private…
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Fort Collins is 9th Colo. city to take renewable energy pledge
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The city of Fort Collins has become Colorado’s ninth local government to pledge to get all of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. The City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to take the”Ready for 100? pledge pushed by the Sierra Club. Democrat Jared Polis, the frontrunner for governor, is running on a promise to…
