The administration of governor-elect John Hickenlooper Friday named Denver-based wind energy executive Tanuj “TJ” Deora the new director of the Governor’s Energy Office, created by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007 to facilitate the state’s burgeoning “New Energy Economy.”
Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future launched the YES on 2B Campaign over the weekend with a party at the Ribhouse in Boulder, where attendees learned about a complicated ballot measure facing voters in November.
After following a recommendation…
The Colorado Independent got a press release today from Democratic Congresswoman Betsy Markey announcing that she had won the 2010 Golden Triangle Award from the National Farmers Union “for demonstrating leadership on issues relevant to America’s family farmers, ranchers and…
The board of directors of Holy Cross Energy (pdf), a rural electric cooperative with more than 40,000 members between Vail and Aspen, has officially “flipped” from old-school conventional-energy conservatives to a majority of progressive directors favoring a greater mix…
In 2008, according to the EPA (pdf), Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash and only recycled about 83 million tons, or just over 33 percent.
Compare that to Horsholm, Denmark, where only 4 percent of the town’s…
One is indeed the loneliest number, especially when it comes to reforming a rural electric co-op board bent on quashing clean-energy and conservation initiatives in the name of dirtier-burning coal.
A rift over legislation aimed at making rural electric association (REA) board elections more transparent and fair for challengers has in part spurred one co-op to part ways with the statewide association representing Colorado’s 21 REAs.
Democrats differ widely on whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be able to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution under the Clean Air Act, and the rift seems to be mostly geographical and based on how much coal a state contains.
State Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, always legislatively active on the renewable energy front, will introduce a bill this session to legalize community “solar gardens,” according to the Boulder Daily Camera.
The bill would allow people to buy into a…
Announcing his agenda for the legislative session that gets under way Wednesday, Gov. Bill Ritter Tuesday revealed a plan to increase Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES) by another 10 percent by 2020.
In a press release Tuesday, Ritter set this…
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