The highway rule few Coloradans know is steering road projects
By Scott James | Commentary, Scott K. James
Colorado’s GHG rule quietly reshaped every major highway decision, forcing climate math over real-world mobility. Part 2 exposes how it happened
Yesterday, in Part 1, we traced how Colorado got quietly rewired:
from voters rejecting Prop 112…
to SB19-181 passing anyway…
to statewide GHG targets…
to “roadmaps” that turned climate goals into marching orders…
to SB21-260, welding transportation funding to climate policy.
Today isn’t about another bill.
Today is about one rule – written in the middle of COVID, on glitchy Zoom calls and muted microphones – that quietly changed how every major transportation decision in Colorado gets made:
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Transportation Planning St...