: Aug. 24 news story.
Your article on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plan to order cuts in carbon emissions contained a question by Colorado Mining Association president Stan Dempsey. He asks, “What is the policy goal here?” Dempsey sees coal miners out of work, but he ignores our rapidly changing climate, increased floods, fires and droughts. Does he not see temperatures are rising and disasters increasing? I think the policy goal is to protect the Earth from coming major impacts of global warming, and I applaud Hickenlooper.
Marc Alston, Denver
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s proposed order for a 35 percent drop in carbon emissions in the state by 2030, though laudable, does not get Colorado close to the necessary level of emissions to meet the standards agreed to in the Paris agreement of December 2015. Colorado needs to take far more stringent measures to curb emissions, not just of carbon dioxide but also of methane caused by fracking of natural gas. We need to get serious about mitigating and adapting to climate change before Itap too late.
Susan Permut, Monument
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