Tag: Climate
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Making Climate Policy Work in a Changing World
Colorado should lead on climate—but not by pretending we can decarbonize in isolation or on a fixed schedule no matter the cost. A durable climate policy must balance emissions reductions with affordability, reliability, and fairness for today’s Coloradans and future generations.
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How policy volatility could break America’s power grid
America’s energy policy is starting to feel like a game of Calvinball – the anything-goes sport from Calvin and Hobbes where the rules change mid-play to favor whoever’s holding the ball. That’s the reality for utilities and energy developers trying to plan in an era of constant surprises.
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After America’s great energy divorce, what’s next?
The world is moving toward cleaner, cheaper, more distributed energy whether America leads or follows. The question isn’t whether this transition will happen — it’s whether American innovation, American workers, and American companies will drive it.
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Welcome to Powering Forward
Powering Forward is about navigating changing conditions in these uncertain times. It’s human-focused and hopeful, a space where energy, climate, and community come together, told through the lens of Western Colorado and the policies that shape it.
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Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is smart policy
We all face increasing threat from the West’s hotter, drier, denser forests. That’s just a fact. Last year we lost 9 million acres to wildland fire. We can’t fix hot, and we can’t fix dry — not in the short term anyway. But we can fix dense.
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Support for HB25-1040
HB25-1040 would include nuclear energy as another zero-carbon resource for utilities and energy planners to consider, subject to community support, economics, and safety review processes. The bill passed with strong bipartisan votes and was signed into law by Gov. Polis on March 31, 2025.
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IRA invests in energy, water and rural America
The Inflation Reduction Act makes a generational investment in low-carbon energy and helps Americans adapt to a warming climate. Its energy tax credits are popular in many Republican districts, sparking local investment, building domestic supply chains, and accelerating innovation in technologies like geothermal, advanced nuclear, battery storage and carbon capture.
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Colorado’s transition to renewables
A published letter in the Denver Post – stating that Colorado’s clean energy transition was moving much too slowly – triggered this response from me.
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Climate change: ‘We can solve it. We already are’
We’re changing how we power our homes, businesses and transportation. By next year, 50% of the electricity consumed by Tri-State’s co-op customers will come from clean resources. LPEA plans to exceed that by adding in more local renewables. Electric vehicles are mainstream now, as is rooftop solar teamed with battery storage.
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Support for SB23-079
SB23-079 would include nuclear energy as another zero-carbon resource for utilities to consider, subject to community support, economics, and safety review processes. The bill failed to advance out of committee in 2023.
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