Colorado Politics file Gov. Jared Polis, seated, presents the pen he used to sign a bill that will urge utilities to build more charging stations for electric vehicles to Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, as co-sponsors of the bill, Sen. Angela Williams, D-Denver, and Rep. Chris Hansen, D-Denver, look on.
Colorado Politics file
Electric vehicles, the greenest and trendiest way of getting around, are also a charged political issue on the highways of Colorado.
Policymakers, led by Gov. Jared Polis and the Democrats who control the General Assembly, aren t easing off the accelerator anytime soon.
Immediately after taking office in 2019, Polis signed an executive order calling for 940,000 electric vehicles on the road in Colorado by 2030, roughly 43% of the passenger vehicle market.
That s a big jump: EVs are about 5% of the state s vehicle market.
It also won t be cheap. Try on more than $1.2 billion in the next decade shared by EV owners, businesses and the government.
Electric vehicles, the greenest and trendiest way of getting around, are also a charged political issue on the highways of Colorado.
Policymakers, led by Gov. Jared Polis and the Democrats who control the General Assembly, aren t easing off the accelerator anytime soon.
Immediately after taking office in 2019, Polis signed an executive order calling for 940,000 electric vehicles on the road in Colorado by 2030, roughly 43% of the passenger vehicles for sale.
That s a big jump: EVs are about 5% of the state s vehicle market.
It also won t be cheap. Try on more than $1.2 billion in the next decade shared by EV owners, businesses and the government.
Fort Morgan Times
The prospect of testifying before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission might be unnerving for a lot of people, but Ean Tafoya was excited about being cross examined during a recent hearing. Huge for me and the (environmental justice) coalition, Tafoya wrote in a text to The Denver Post before the April 21 hearing on a utility s plan to help move the state s transition to electric vehicles forward.
Tafoya, the Colorado field advocate for GreenLatinos, referred to the power of the mic to convey the positions of his organization and other members of the Environmental Justice Coalition on Black Hills Energy s proposal.
BOULDER Beginning at 7 a.m. Friday, all railroad “quiet zones” work will be done, and residents and businesses near the designated zones will hear train-horn noise less frequently.
In a written statement, the city of Boulder said that five streets that intersect with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway in the city are affected by the new quiet zones and the signage or technology used to keep the crossings safe without the use of train horns. The zones are:
47th Street.
63rd Street (north of Arapahoe Avenue).
Pearl Parkway.
Valmont Road (established since 2019).
Designated quiet zones permit train engineers to pass through railroad crossings without needing to sound train horns. Engineers still have the authority to sound the horn if unsafe conditions exist.