Tag: coal-fired power plants
Ritter renewable hike sails through Senate; clean air bill next on...
Gov. Bill Ritter may be a lame-duck chief executive laid up by a recent bike crash, but his clean-energy agenda keeps rolling along like Lance Armstrong in the Alps.
Udall: Rockefeller air pollution bill a Supreme Court end-around
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.
Colorado companies blast Murkowski’s bid to block EPA on greenhouse gases
Colorado businesses, tourism industry and health care officials are scrambling to counteract an ongoing push in the U.S. Senate to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
State Sen. Mike Kopp on payroll of climate-change-questioning IREA electric co-op
As lawmakers once again try to put the heat on the state’s largest rural electric co-op this legislative session, at least one state senator...
PUC to weigh Xcel Comanche 3 delays, gas rate overcharge later...
In a pre-holiday rush, Xcel Energy rate increase cases are flying fast and furiously before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission these days.
The PUC Wednesday...
PUC weighs rate-increase refunds in light of Comanche 3 power plant...
Tests over the weekend on Xcel Energy’s new Comanche 3 coal-fired power plant revealed cracks in boiler tubing that will push the facility’s opening...
Tri-State strikes deal with environmental group to close PUC investigation
Westminster-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission, the state’s second largest power provider behind Xcel Energy, reached a deal with environmentalists Wednesday that prompted the Colorado...
Colorado in crosshairs of nuke boom if climate bill sparks uranium...
Colorado, historically a major uranium-producing state, will be ground zero of the nation’s nuclear revival if that form of power enjoys the renaissance proponents say is necessary for climate change legislation to win approval in the U.S. Senate.
IREA Voices touts new study on looming coal shortages
IREA Voices, a citizen activist group formed to combat the climate change policies of the state’s largest rural electric co-op, is pointing its members...
Colorado firms skewer U.S. Chamber for fighting climate change legislation
Count a growing number of Colorado businesses among those deeply disenchanted with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance that climate change legislation is largely based on junk science and will further derail the American economy.