Clean, safe, affordable transportation options.  Sound good?

Issue in Focus: Transportation

The transportation sector is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. We simply can’t move people and goods in Colorado the same way we always have – by building more and more highway lanes. We need convenient transit. We need electric cars and trucks and the infrastructure to charge them.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Clean Diesel program offers grants to Coloradan businesses that are “interested in replacing one or more of their older diesel machines with eligible lower- or zero-
Even if we hit the most ambitious targets for changing our cars and trucks over to electric vehicles, we will fail to meaningfully reduce emissions from transportation without confronting this simple fact: new roads always produce new driving.
Times are changing at the Colorado Department of Transportation according to a new article published in the Denver Post this week.
Policymakers at the Department of Transportation have a unique opportunity to put Colorado on the national map to better account for greenhouse gas emissions, increase the number of EVs and reduce how much we drive – all things that will help CLEAN THE AIR.
The Greenest and Meanest Vehicles of 2021 Post excerpt here. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has released a statement applauding recent positive moves by major automobile companies in regards to electric-powered vehicles.
A new report ranking state government support for electric vehicles finds Colorado ranked in the top 5.
A local Colorado business says that his company, and many more in the State, will likely see a big upside from President Biden’s announcement that the federal government’s fleet of cars and trucks will be replaced with electric vehicles.
A proposed $30 million program to provide rebates to Coloradans looking to purchase an electric vehicle has been pared down to $5 million in a decision by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission this week.

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