Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration is making plans to implement the EPA s Clean Power Plan rules despite the U.S. Supreme Court issuing a stay against the plan. (Brennan Linsley, Associated Press file)
Re: Wasting Colorado’s money on EPA’s Clean Power Plan, April 2 guest commentary.
State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg claims to want to prevent the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) from wasting taxpayer dollars on studying how to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency s Clean Power Plan. He acknowledges that the amount of money in question is less than 0.1 percent of the CDPHE s budget, or about 0.001 percent of the state s budget.
Sonnenberg doesn t really care about the dollars. Instead, he s doing his best to prevent the state from taking any steps whatsoever toward addressing climate change. We saw another example of this recently, when Sonnenberg and his fellow Republicans on the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Committee killed House Bill 1004, which would have required the state to do what over 20 Colorado cities and counties have already done: adopt measurable goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
How long can Coloradans afford to let Sonnenberg keep his head in the sand on this issue?
J. Kevin Cross, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the April 13 edition.
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