After a voluntary, “alternative” approach was rejected last month, state officials and automakers have agreed to a different compromise.

Democrats thought they had crafted a bill that could win GOP support, but Republicans aren’t biting.

Supporters still have another three months to collect enough signatures to make the ballot in 2020.

“This is the Trump administration’s EPA on full display. They just refuse to comply with the law.”

“The ‘energy dominance’ agenda, the regulatory rollbacks, the administrative rollbacks, the expansion of leasing, even the relocation of BLM’s headquarters — they’re all attempts to buttress oil and gas.”

“Things that would have been a real struggle a few years ago are now common sense.”

“They’re not using the full extent of their powers to protect residents,” says one activist.

“The state of Colorado — and the 2nd Congressional District in particular — is an epicenter for climate change research.”

The state is nowhere near on track to make the deep emissions cuts it enshrined into law this year.

More than a dozen city and county governments along the Front Range are taking steps to impose new, local regulations on oil and gas.

By next summer, state officials want to double the number of electric vehicles sold in Colorado.

“The whole fight is now moving to the local level,” says one activist. “And I think it’s going to be tough.”

“I’ll be brutally honest: It absolutely does not matter at all.”

“The Trump administration is completely undermining Colorado’s efforts to cut climate pollution.”

The first round of rulemaking was scheduled to last just a month. A final vote now been postponed until August.

But another weekend closure is coming soon.