From The Competitive Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation:
Natural Resources, Environment, and Science
Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither
by William Yeatman, Amy Oliver Cooke
Competitive Enterprise Institute
October 27, 2010
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy, and Governor Bill Ritter colluded to fast track the misnamed Clean Air Clean Jobs Act, which effectively mandates coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas. The trio essentially duped law makers into hasty passage of this bill. They warned legislators that the federal Environmental Protection Agency would crack down on Colorado coal power with the Clean Air Act. But that was really a bogeyman meant to frighten lawmakers. While it is true that President Barack Obama’s EPA is hostile to coal-generated energy, the governor and the PUC grossly exaggerated the regulatory threat in order to advance their agenda, and Xcel went along with the ruse.
URL: www.cei.org/sites/default/files/William%20Yeatman%20and%20Amy%20Oliver%20Cooke%20-%20Colorado%27s%20Clean%20Air%20Jobs%20Act%20Will%20Accomplish%20Neither%20-%20HB%201365.pdf
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