Dan Sanders: "Biofuels are scarcely mentioned as a solution in the [Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap], which begs the question: Why not? The lack of attention given to ethanol as
Dan Sanders: "Biofuels are scarcely mentioned as a solution in the [Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap], which begs the question: Why not? The lack of attention given to ethanol as
by Dan Sanders (Colorado Politics) Our state published the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap on Jan. 14. The Colorado Energy Office touted the plan as being, “the most ambitious and substantive planning process Colorado has ever undertaken on climate leadership, pollution reduction and a clean energy transition.” While this may be true, the Polis administration’s plan lacks specifics and overlooks a readily available, homegrown, renewable source of energy one that is scientifically proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by almost half.
Biofuels are scarcely mentioned as a solution in the plan, which begs the question: Why not? The lack of attention given to ethanol as a solution to achieving net-zero emissions is disappointing. We can and should do better.
For Steamboat Pilot & Today
Routt and Moffat counties continue to be in extreme and exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, perpetuating from the hottest and driest summer on record last year. Dry antecedent conditions like these are troubling heading into any winter, but combined with what is turning out to be a snow drought winter season across the western U.S., which is how forecasters are characterizing the current dry and cold La Nina winter conditions, we are likely and gravely looking ahead to a drier and hotter 2021 summer season. The effects of climate change are known to us here in the Upper Yampa River Basin.