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Governor Ritter makes the grade

By | 09.29.10 | 12:17 pm

Governor Bill Ritter, who has staked his claim on making Colorado a leader in the “green economy,” got his report card yesterday and he did OK.

Colorado Conservation Voters graded the governor in seven subjects, with grades ranging from…

Ted Turner blasts U.S. for once again sitting back on climate change

By | 09.28.10 | 5:44 pm

Speaking at the Colorado Conservation Voters annual fall luncheon today, media mogul Ted Turner scolded the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol and said the rest of the world is waiting for the United States to take a leadership role in clean energy and climate change.

Ted Turner in Denver: ‘We ought to outsource the military’

By | 09.28.10 | 5:15 pm

Ted Turner was in town today to talk about climate change and environmental issues with Gov. Bill Ritter and Colorado Conservation Voters.

He did that, but he couldn’t help also getting in a few zingers about war, communism and money.…

Penry joins clean-energy effort, touts increase in gas industry jobs

By | 03.18.10 | 11:27 am

State Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, the former quarterback and golden boy of the state GOP, has his name splashed all over a piece of clean-energy legislation that has the backing of his political nemesis, Gov. Bill Ritter, and a slew of conservation groups, including Environment Colorado, Colorado Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club.

Ritter signs green vehicle bill; beetles headed to hearing on Hill

By | 06.04.09 | 1:28 pm

Picture a scenario sometime after 2010 where — if Gov. Bill Ritter is reelected and the Dems keep control of the statehouse — we’ll all be driving plug-in hybrids that run on a mix of ethanol and ground-up bark beetles, with tiny snowboarders emblazoned on our license plates.

It’s a nightmare vision for most right-wingers, straight out of the Shangri-La they sneeringly refer to as the “People’s Republic of Boulder,” but it’s a little closer to reality today after Governor Renewable signed House Bill 1331, which provides state tax incentives for high-tech, fuel-efficient vehicles.

Conservation Voters hits back at Western Skies’ ads

By | 09.15.08 | 5:02 pm

The Colorado Conservation Voters Campaign Fund unveiled a new television campaign Monday to counter a Western Skies Coalition ad that inaccurately portrayed State Sen. Shawn Mitchell (R-Broomfield) as a champion of renewable energy.

The new loophole: Western Skies ushers in a new era for campaign drilling

By | 09.05.08 | 8:38 am

It’s as clear as the Western Skies: Nonprofit 501(c)4s are the new 527s of the Colorado political scene, the latest way that shadowy special interest groups are tapping into seemingly unlimited undisclosed special interest cash to attack or support candidates who can further their agendas. Take, for instance, the Western Skies Coalition, a conservative group claiming to be a 501(c)4 nonprofit dedicated to “promoting issues that make our nation great.”

Sources say Penry behind Western Skies’ bid for Colorado GOP Senate majority

By | 09.03.08 | 3:01 pm

The Western Skies Coalition, a conservative Virginia corporation with an office in Littleton, is allegedly being used by state Sen. Josh Penry (R-Fruita) to raise funds from oil and gas companies in a bid target several key Colorado state Senate races and win back a Republican majority in 2010, according to several sources.