The new climate committee will partner with Conservation Colorado, a group with close ties to the California billionaire environmentalist, according to a senior lawmaker.
After months of tip-toeing around the issue, CU Regent candidate Alice Madden says she will not support fossil-fuel divestment at the university.
“You’ll get a different kind of a cap-and-trade bill, but the cap will be the one set by the Clean Power Plan,” Gov. Ritter tells an environmental conference in Ohio.
Next time around, it’s going to be much harder for big national environmental groups to pretend they’re homespun, grassroots and local.
Even with the demise of anti-fracking ballot measures, energy remains a hot issue in Colorado elections this year, thanks to Tom Steyer and the presidential candidates.
One of the anti-fracking signature gatherers is actually pinning the blame on Denver’s homeless population.
Even without anti-fracking measures on the ballot, environmental politics will continue to play a huge role in Colorado elections this year.
If the anti-energy agenda becomes the law of the land in Colorado, the damage to the energy sector will just be the beginning. A new report shows every business and every household will feel the impacts and the entire state economy will struggle.
Steyer has boosted his field spending in Colorado and made personal contributions to Democrats in key state legislative races.
Far-left activists with 350.org are gathering signatures for this year’s anti-fracking measures. Their leader says he wants to “drive a stake through the heart” of the fossil-fuel industry, one of Colorado’s biggest employers.
Roughly 90 percent of land across Colorado would be walled off, with an even greater impact in the handful of counties where most of the state’s oil and gas production takes place.
Trouble is, McKibben’s views are so extreme they make other environmentalists cringe. “I think that to keep it in the ground is naïve, to say we could shift to 100 percent renewables is naïve,” Sally Jewell, President Obama’s Interior Secretary…
