Environment

“We all know that the sooner we get electric vehicles on the road, the sooner we’ll be breathing clean air.”

The contractor wanted a three-year extension, but residents successfully argued for a shorter timeline and increased accountability.

An expert says looking for shortcuts can prove fatal.

“Climate change is the greatest threat to our environment, economy and health, especially to our most vulnerable populations. Urgent and unprecedented changes are needed.”

“We still have work to do. We’re not perfect.”

Climate change, said Governor Jared Polis, is “an existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and ecosystems, and our very way of life.”

“We’ve tried it your way. We tried to be polite, and yet you haven’t denied a single permit.”

The state’s first-ever special grand jury was impaneled on August 1, 1989.

“We’re not anywhere close to being done with reducing emissions from this sector.”

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.”

An Endangered Species Act listing flew the coop.

“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.”