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Rural electric co-op quits state group in support of Levy board election bill
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A rift over legislation aimed at making rural electric association (REA) board elections more transparent and fair for challengers has in part spurred one co-op to part ways with the statewide association representing Colorado's 21 REAs.
Community solar gardens
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by Tom Konrad A new bill being considered in the Colorado legislature would create “solar gardens.” Solar gardens allow people to participate financially in owning part of a solar array even if they do not have a suitable site on their own property. My reading of the proposed legislation is that subscriptions in a solar garden would be financial securities, and fall under securities laws. That’...
Colorado Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard
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Yesterday, Colorado's state legislature finalized a bill to increase the state's renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2020.Colorado was one of the first states to adopt a renewable energy standard at all, committing in 2004 to get 10 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2015 and increasing that to 20 percent by 2020 in 2006. This latest measure puts the state right behind Cali...
Colorado Shoots for 30% Renewable Energy by 2020, a Stark Contrast to Its Neighbors
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Colorado’s legislature signed off Monday on one of the toughest renewable energy standards in the country.Once the governor signs it, utilities will be required to get 30 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. That follows an agreement Gov. Bill Ritter signed last week with Colorado’s largest utility and a coalition of energy companies and lawmakers to reduce pollution and shift...
Colorado Strikes Gold with Clean Energy Jobs
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Colorado, a clean energy hotbed, is creating thousands of new green jobs despite the climate cold war in Washington.Two dozen business leaders held a Race for American Jobs event in Denver a couple of weeks ago (the campaign hits Manchester, N.H., today and ends in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday), and the stories I heard there took my breath away.I met war veterans who once crawled through atti...
Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard - Only California's is Higher
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Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr.Now this is getting somewhere... Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state's
Sage grouse ruling ruffles feathers of Colorado oil and gas industry
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Colorado oil and gas industry officials Monday were nervously eyeing Friday's decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designating the greater sage grouse as "warranted but precluded" for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Bill pitting river enthusiasts, landowners runs into rough waters in Senate
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A bill that could buoy or sink Colorado's rafting industry and affect hundreds of thousands of river enthusiasts and landowners may have floated through the House, but it's on the rocks in the Senate.
Colorado Senate advances higher renewable-energy standard
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Colorado stands just two steps away from enacting the second-highest standard in the country for renewable-energy production requirements by utilities, and now Gov. Bill Ritter also wants to raise the national bar on cutting air pollution.
Logging beetle-killed forests challenged
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Forest ecologists trying to prevent the expansion of roads on public lands say in a new report that removing beetle-killed trees is unnecessary, except near mountain communities.
