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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...

The teenager wrote with such passion and conviction, and she was clearly worried — worried that a world racked by climate change wouldn’t be able to sustain her, or her dreams. Her letter to me, the leader of an oil and natural gas trade association, was part of a class project. It was well-researched but also sharp, accusatory and, frankly, depressing. The young woman was a good writer and a good thinker, a wonderful combination that will carry her far into life. But, sadly, it seemed as if she couldn’t see too far into that future. Her letter spoke of “mass extinction” and “enti...

The legislation would have forced the Public Employees’ Retirement Association to ditch about $1.5 billion in fossil fuel securities from its roughly $60 billion portfolio of mostly globally traded equities and fixed-income securities. Legislative budget analysts said the move would rack up $21.6 million in fees to divest and reinvest. The strike against climate change, however, would be mostly symbolic, based on what I heard from Amy McGarrity, PERA's chief investment officer. If Colorado gets rid of its fossil fuel stocks, someone else will just buy them, she said. If the goal is to send ...

coverage of the climate story.   As Don Schreiber stands in the front yard of his ranch near Farmington, New Mexico, he no longer counts cattle — he counts gas wells. And he sees 10. “That’s just the ones that you can see,” he says. There are more nearby, but they are hidden by trees. Schreiber’s ranch sits on 5,760 acres in the middle of the San Juan Basin, the smaller of the state’s two oil and gas producing regions. Smaller, but not small. There are more than 22,000 oil and gas wells there, and 122 of those are on his land, all of them pulling up natural gas. There are 30 well...

The moratorium might be lifted after a public hearing scheduled for April 13. Commissioners thought the moratorium necessary “to allow Larimer County reasonable time to revise their oil and gas regulations, for the safety, health and welfare of residents in Larimer County,” according to a news release. Lesli Ellis, Community Development Director, said “we haven’t had any applications in the past year or so, so there’s no current or pending applications affected by the moratorium.” The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission website shows nine drilling permit...