DENVER—Four environmental groups are asking to intervene in a lawsuit that two groups and a Morrison businessman filed seeking to strike down Colorado’s renewable energy standard.
Environment Colorado, the Colorado Environmental Coalition, the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society say if they are allowed to intervene, they will ask a judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
The lawsuit against the state was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver in April by businessman Rod Lueck, the American Tradition Institute and the American Tradition Partnership, which says it fights environmental extremism. They say a Colorado law requiring larger utilities to get 30 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 is raising consumers’ electricity costs and violating the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause by imposing burdens on the interstate market for electricity.
