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Speak now: Colorado air commission invites public input in Pueblo

3Jun

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Speak now: Colorado air commission invites public input in Pueblo

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project In Pueblo or know someone who is? Speak up to the AQCC. The image with this post is from an email I got last week. It gives details on an in-person public comment session for the Air Quality Control Commission happening in Pueblo on the 24th. It’s live only and you don’t need to sign up, you can just go. In case you want it (and since pictures don’t have clickable links), I put the link from the email below. Things like this are a great opportunity for everyday people to interact with their government and see others doing same. Even if all you did was attend, you’d have a chance to see what this board does, what others say to them, etc. Beyond that, I want to put in a word for speaking up. I would ...

Colorado Senate Advances Bill to Ease Landfill Regulation Burden

21Apr

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Colorado Senate Advances Bill to Ease Landfill Regulation Burden

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado DENVER – A bipartisan bill to backfill county governments for an unfunded methane emissions mandate is counting on money from existing state grant programs, which, according to Sen. Byron Pelton, is necessary to ensure Colorado counties don’t go bankrupt from the environmental rules put in place by unelected boards appointed by Gov. Jared Polis. Senate Bill 26-101, Local Government Landfill Methane Emission Reduction Regulations, will allow counties to use money from the community impact cash fund, air quality enterprise cash fund, and local government mineral impact fund “for the purpose of complying with landfill methane emission reduction requirements adopted by the air quality control commission, a division of the department of public h...

Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

24Feb

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Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

By Sean Paige | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice President Trump's recent repeal of the "endangerment finding"—a Barack Obama-era rule that handed the federal government absolute power to regulate almost anything that emits CO2 emissions, in response to the alleged climate crisis—marks a potential turning point for Colorado. Why? Because it gives Colorado an opportunity, an invitation, to decouple from California clean car mandates we've been operating under for years. Most Coloradans probably don't know that their state’s "clean car" mandates are written by an unelected board of all-powerful ecocrats called the California Air Resources Board (CARB.) But why would most Coloradans know this, since it was never debated by the legislat...

Unelected Colorado board tightens landfill methane rules statewide

6Jan

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Unelected Colorado board tightens landfill methane rules statewide

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project The Air Quality Control Council (AQCC) passes strict new regulations on landfill methane emissions. I wanted to update an earlier story about the unelected AQCC mulling rules about methane emissions for landfills. Per the Sun article linked at bottom, last month the 9 member board (with only 6 of them voting) finalized rules for landfills around the entire state.You read that right. 6 people on a Zoom meeting made decisions for you. 6 people who you cannot vote out.Since it’s a Sun article by advocate Michael Booth, there is ample space given to environmentalists with a couple words from those that disagreed tossed in, all of which I’ll leave for you to read over, but there are a couple details noteworthy en...

State commission blocks bid to expand public review into minor business emissions changes

17Dec

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State commission blocks bid to expand public review into minor business emissions changes

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project New emissions rules for minor modifications gets (thankfully) voted down. There’s something noteworthy towards the end of the Sum and Substance article linked at bottom.** The part I want to focus on begins under the heading “A debate over minor modifications”. Don’t make the same (initial) mistake I did and take it from the words that the debated would be minor! The minor modifications here refer to a change in a factory or plant’s process which might slightly alter the amount of pollution they emit. Quoting the article: “APCD [Air Pollution Control Division] staffers, for example, wanted to change the current permitting process for minor modifications — facility upgrades at major-emitt...

Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission hearings show how small business voices are shut out

3Sep

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Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission hearings show how small business voices are shut out

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project, Substack Government regulations differentially harm small businesses AND private businesses I wrote a newsletter (see the first link below if you want the context) a bit back about testifying in front of the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) about how unelected boards are not how our state should run. I did end up testifying* and I wanted to share the testimony of a gentleman who preceded me because what he said struck me as important. The gentleman's name is Jeff Kendall and he is the CEO of Bruin Waste, a private, family-run business on the Western Slope which picks up trash and operates some landfills. His testimony starts in the recording of the hearing (linked second below) at the 1:03:55 mark. I won't...

Colorado’s infrastructure report reveals more about politics than potholes

20Aug

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Colorado’s infrastructure report reveals more about politics than potholes

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project ASCE leans on the Colorado Fiscal Institute and the Economic Policy Institute to understand TABOR? The Complete Colorado article linked at bottom details a recent report by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) which gave our state an overall C- rating on infrastructure. Quoting the article, "The ASCE report evaluates 14 categories of the state’s infrastructure, assigning a letter grade to each of the categories: Aviation, dams, rail (B-), bridges (C+), energy, public parks, wastewater (C), drinking water, solid waste, storm water, transit (C-), levees, schools, and roads (D+)." Sounds about right. The article goes on to detail some issues with the report. One of these is how the report misunderstands ...

Bauer: Power House Panel of Western Slope Legislators in Delta

12Aug

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Bauer: Power House Panel of Western Slope Legislators in Delta

By Shirley Bauer | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Hard math: 4 of 70 Republican bills became law. On July 23, five of our state’s most prominent legislators representing the Western Slope met for a legislative update at Daveto’s to a sold-out crowd. The legislative update was sponsored by Delta County GOP, and the MC was Chairwoman Leslie Parker. The legislators present represented Delta County along with other counties on the Western Slope: • Senator Janice Rich from Senate District 7, Senate Minority Whip and winner of the “Legislator of the Year” award in 2023, represents the Cedaredge area in Delta County and all of Mesa County (she resides in Grand Junction). • Senator Marc Catlin, who resides in Montrose, is from Senate District 5. He represents most of Delta Coun...

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Speak now: Colorado air commission invites public input in Pueblo

Colorado Senate Advances Bill to Ease Landfill Regulation Burden

Colorado should drop its membership in the California Clean Car Cartel.

Unelected Colorado board tightens landfill methane rules statewide

State commission blocks bid to expand public review into minor business emissions changes

Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission hearings show how small business voices are shut out

Colorado’s infrastructure report reveals more about politics than potholes

Bauer: Power House Panel of Western Slope Legislators in Delta

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