tim jackson
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Colorado spends $550,000 in campaign to promote electric vehicle sales
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A Colorado state agency spent more than half a million dollars to tout the benefits of electric vehicles in an educational campaign that promotes the EV industry. The campaign, which the state launched Monday, seeks to inform Coloradans about how, among other things, “seamlessly EVs can fit into your life and find answers to all…
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Drought threatens Colorado River hydropower, major source of renewable energy
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PAGE, ARIZ. • Soulful notes from a Native American flute float over the vast valley on the backside of the Glen Canyon Dam, which interrupts the once mighty Colorado River. At the tourist overlook, a teen — his phone in hand, playing the music — hops from one phyllo-layered sandstone outcropping to another, where river, rock…
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Colorado vehicle registrations decline, with a common theme to blame
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Low inventories of new vehicles triggered a 10% decline in new vehicle registrations in Colorado in the first quarter and are expected to play an even bigger role in the second quarter, a dealer trade group said. The 57,618 new vehicles registered in the first quarter were down more than 6,000 vehicles from the more…
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Colo. to adopt low-emissions vehicle standards under Hickenlooper order
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order Tuesday committing the state to the adoption of low emission vehicle (LEV) standards in an effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 26 percent by 2025. Colorado joins 12 other states and the District of Columbia, led by California, to take up emissions standards tougher than federal requirements…
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THE PODIUM: Don’t impose cookie-cutter California air standards on Colorado
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Imagine if Colorado decided to cede its policymaking authority to California. The Colorado General Assembly could declare “whatever works for California works for us” and adjourn. As ridiculous as this sounds, some are proposing that Colorado do exactly that when it comes to our vehicle emissions standards. They are urging Colorado to adopt California’s Low…
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Q&A with Tim Jackson: ‘America’s love affair with the car continues to thrive’
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Tim Jackson isn’t just another trade association rep who does standup for his industry, puts in long hours at the State Capitol and hobnobs in political circles. Sure, he does all that and more as the longtime president of the low-key but highly influential Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. But as we were reminded in this…
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YESTERYEAR: Romer takes on Union of Taxpayers’ chief over TABOR refunds
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Thirty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … On election night, 1987, incumbent Mayor Federico Peña went on to capture 79,674 votes for 51 percent of the total vote compared to challenger Don Bain’s 49 percent. The highlight (or lowlight) of the evening, was Peña’s sweltering downtown headquarters where 1,000 people crammed into…
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Colorado Earth Day success story: Quietly, consistently, air quality improves
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Have you heard the good news on the environment? Well, it’s not exactly new but it may surprise you. Since 1980, emissions of six common pollutants have declined by two thirds, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Meanwhile, the U.S. population increased by more than a third, energy consumption grew by more than a…
