Colorado
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ConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Sorry, Still Not for Sale
by Greg Walcher January 26, 2021Why is the New York Times writing about Colorado water? Because Wall Street investors plan to get rich by rerouting it.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Ode To the Big Meadows, R.I.P.
by Greg Walcher November 13, 2020It is past time for citizens and their elected officials to insist on active management solutions
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Heartland on the Air: H. Sterling Burnett on The Crude Life
by Billy Aouste October 14, 2019Yesterday, Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett joined Jason Spiess on The Crude Life podcast to discuss a recent podcast produced by The Heartland Institute.
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Environment/Energy
Coloradans’ Votes Don’t Matter to State’s Democratic Leaders
by H. Sterling Burnett April 10, 2019Empowered by their recent sweep of the state Legislature and governor’s mansion, Colorado Democrats are showing their true stripes.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
When Environmentalism Becomes Corruption
by Craig Liukko January 22, 2019Environmental principles are too often used to stop lawful, responsible, vital land uses. We need rational rules to protect environmental values – and meet essential societal needs.
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One starts to suspect there is a lot of hype, and maybe securities fraud, going on here.
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Insane “eco” proposition would all but shut down oil production – and set bad national precedent.
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Budgets/Taxes
Rediscovering Tax and Regulatory Powers at the Local Level
by Barry Poulson November 1, 2018Colorado is a swing state, and Broomfield County, where I live, has an unusually diverse electorate, with roughly equal shares of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters.
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Environment/Energy
Cloning California Car Mandates Will Cost Coloradans Dearly
by Tim Benson and Sen. Kevin Lundberg August 9, 2018In June, Colorado’s term-limited Democrat governor, John Hickenlooper, signed an executive order directing his bureaucrats in the state’s public health department to adopt California’s low-emissions vehicles (LEV) standards
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Environment/EnergyTaxes
Tax Reform Delivers Cheaper Electricity
by H. Sterling Burnett April 19, 2018Tax reform is already producing big benefits for Americans, despite Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (CA) comment declaring the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act amounted to mere “crumbs” for most Americans.
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States should avoid imposing dubious “social cost of carbon” rules.
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An environmental organization is asking a court to grant a river status as a “person” with the rights of personhood, thereby launching an attack on judicial fairness, the rule of law, and democracy.
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California’s lofty goal of renewable energy is nothing more than a pipe dream.