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Insights: Jared Polis’ wonky answer on cost of renewables begins to roar
He has to dumb it down. Jared Polis promises if he’s elected governor Colorado will get all its power from renewable sources by 2040, a future my affection for fried foods suggests I will not see. Voters might have the same problem, chicken wings aside: This wind-and-solar future is lost in a smog of vague…
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Pete Maysmith moves on from Conservation Colorado to head up national elections effort
The man who made Conservation Colorado the engine of the state’s environmental movement is pulling out of the station. Pete Maysmith is becoming the senior vice president of campaigns for the national League of Conservation Voters. Since taking over as executive director of the then-little-known Colorado Conservation Voters in 2009, Maysmith has led the organization…