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Summit becomes first Colorado county to commit to 100% renewable energy
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Summit County plans to be tops in more than Colorado peaks, this week becoming the state’s first county to commit to getting all its power from renewable sources by 2035. “It’s exciting to see the first countywide commitment to a clean, renewable energy future in Colorado,” said Jim Alexee, director of the Colorado Sierra Club.…
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LOMAX: Billionaire poised to bankroll another round of green politics in Colorado
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Tom Steyer is back in Colorado politics. Well, actually, he never really left. Anyone who follows politics in our state should know Steyer well. He’s the environmental activist and California hedge-fund billionaire who spent more than $7 million on a failed campaign against U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R) in 2014. He poured at least $2 million more into Colorado…
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LOMAX: Latest bid to ban oil & gas drilling in Colorado is déjà vu all over again
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The more things change, the more they stay the same – especially if you’re in the business of running anti-oil and gas campaigns in Colorado. In late December, a coalition of environmental activist groups announced the introduction of a statewide ballot measure targeting Colorado’s energy sector. “We’re doing this for a second time,” said campaign…
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Green groups building toward a critical mass in Pueblo
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Pueblo’s denizens long have voted blue, but green? The Democratic Party’s environmental agenda always had seemed like more of a Boulder kind of thing; not much traction in a blue-collar community whose historic steel plant earned it the moniker “Steel City.” Times are a changin’. Last February, the Pueblo City Council adopted a resolution committing the…
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LOMAX: Reality catches up with anti-oil and gas groups as they take a victory lap
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My first real experience writing about politics was in the Deep South – Mississippi to be precise. Southern politicians are famous for their expressions and sayings, but these words of wisdom have always stuck with me: “In politics, nothing is ever as good as it seems, and nothing is ever as bad as it seems.”…
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Fracking foes win the day in Broomfield, but next they go to court
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Broomfield voters gave a 57 percent edge to giving local government more say-so on whether oil-and-gas wells are safety and healthy. At the very least it was a major moral victory for opponents of the oil-and-gas industry in the fast-developing countryside north of Denver. Industry and business coalitions on the right, and environmental groups on…
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LOMAX: Broomfield paper trail leads to Sierra Club and other ‘Big Enviro’ groups
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National environmental groups have a First Amendment right to campaign at any level of government they choose – federal, state or local – just as the business community, energy workers and regular citizens have free-speech rights to oppose these campaigns. For the record, I work on the pro-business side of the street with a group…
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Denver must commit to new climate plan goals
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The city of Denver recently released a new climate action plan on how our city can tackle the threat of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. Over the past year, leaders from across our community have worked together to develop this roadmap, which found that in order to achieve our…
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Opportunity for Gov. Hickenlooper to put his words on climate into action
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The operator of Colorado’s single largest source of methane emissions is asking to pay Coloradans even less to continue polluting our air and water, bulldozing our forests, and exacerbating the climate problem. Arch Coal operates the West Elk coal mine – Colorado’s largest coal mine – in Gunnison National Forest, and they are filing a…
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Energy grid study blames natural gas, not renewables, for coal’s decline
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Last weekend subscribers read in Colorado Politics’ Insights column about the threats a federal study of the energy grid, expected to bolster coal, posed for our state, rich in renewable energy programs and natural gas. The report was released Wednesday night, and as expected it said the grid needs to be fed by reliable coal…