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...

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