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Colorado needs to wake up to pending EPA rules

Time is ticking on the EPA’s clock as the federal agency prepares sweeping new mandates that will significantly impact Colorado consumers and our state’s economy. The EPA’s rulemaking is starting to...

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Editor’s Notebook: Please, let’s strike a balance between energy and environment

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Carroll: Time for the truth on EPA’s Clean Power Plan

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How to implement EPA’s new air rules? Trust—but verify

Our coalition has been among Colorado’s many energy stakeholders that have voiced serious concerns about pending new federal air standards and their likely, sweeping impact on power consumers. We have...

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Office of Consumer Counsel needs an updated mission

For decades, the working premise of our state’s top consumer advocate, the Office of Consumer Counsel, has been that Colorado’s rank-and-file utility ratepayers need an advocate in their corner. And...

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Consumers won one, but also lost a big one in Colorado’s 2015 legislative...

Our state’s electricity ratepayers have barely begun to pick up the tab for sweeping, new air mandates fast-tracked into law by the General Assembly in 2010. The Clean Air Clean Jobs Act, which in part...

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Litigating on the backs of Colorado ratepayers

Much has been said already about the potentially devastating impact on northwestern Colorado’s economy if one of its top industries, mining, is brought to its knees by a lawsuit that effectively seeks...

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Colorado AG takes up consumer cause in suit against Clean Power Plan, but...

As reported recently, Attorney General Cynthia Coffman added Colorado to the growing number of states ready to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented Clean Power Plan. Coffman’s...

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Coffman’s EPA Challenge Critical for Colorado Electricity Consumers

One of the most important roles a state’s attorney general can play is to go to bat for rank-and-file consumers. All the more so, when like-minded attorneys general from a number of states band...

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Respected ratings agency warns costs of climate plan could ‘soar’

Wide-ranging voices—in politics; in business; consumer advocates like our coalition—have been warning of the potentially crippling costs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...

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