Colorado Decides It Wants To Be Like California - Moves Towards Stricter Emissions Standards

Today, in response to the EPA’s recent rollback of agreed-upon 2022-2025 fuel efficiency standards, Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado issued an executive order for his state to develop a Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) standard similar to California’s current standard.  The executive order explicitly calls out California as a model, and notes the twelve other US states which have adopted similar programs.

Gov. Hickenlooper previously issued an executive order in 2017 for the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26% by 2025.  Today’s order is one step towards that goal.

At the very least, this should improve availability of EV models in Colorado.  Colorado has some of the best state incentives for EVs, but there are many models which are not available in the state because they are “compliance cars” which are primarily sold and marketed in states where automakers are required by law to sell them due to LEV/ZEV programs like the one Colorado has decided to implement today.

MDarringer - 6/20/2018 12:10:21 PM

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Colorado is unfortunately becoming California V2.0.

monster - 6/20/2018 1:17:04 PM

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And this is a good thing.

MDarringer - 6/20/2018 4:01:48 PM

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If you live there, prepare your your cost of living to go through the roof and for your economy to be virtually bankrupt despite favorable income.

MDarringer - 6/25/2018 8:27:36 AM

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@SanJoseDriver OR cutting spending on welfare to illegals. What California spends on welfare to illegals is greater than the expenditures of the next five states' expenditures on illegals COMBINED. It's running to the tune of $25B.

I believe we should help citizens and legal resident aliens ONLY.

Whenever California has a surplus, it quickly squanders it on yet another social program.

Meanwhile, infrastructure gets raped. The Oroville dam was in such a state of disrepair that it very nearly broke.

I live in California because this is where my 5 sibling and their families live. It's where my dad lives. It's where my wife's huge family lives, but I use a loophole in the tax law to be taxed by a different state that is 4% lower than California.

SanJoseDriver - 6/25/2018 12:10:36 AM

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CA has a surplus this year, but unfortunately they are mostly wasting it on more inefficient programs versus paying down overall debt.

TheSteve - 6/20/2018 3:10:54 PM

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Goodness me! What insanity. Individual rogue states who don't believe in Clean Coal, or who have fallen for the Chinese Hoax that humans burning 1.5 cubic miles of oil each year affects the climate in some way. What craziness.

Send in the Army to subdue those dissidents, and get them in lock-step with the rest!


Yeah, that was a thinly-veiled jab at the Trump Cult ;-)

Go California! Go Colorado! Yay to those who care for clean air, water, and land. Boo on the hateful, the Nazis in America (actual, not metaphorical) and their supporters, the bigots, liars, deceivers, the haters of truth, facts, and science, who are sure to contribute their denial, deflection and derision to this post and this thread.

People of Colorado: You are helping to restoring my faith in The People of America!
<3 <3 <3

MDarringer - 6/20/2018 4:02:51 PM

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Go Gestapo, Go!

TomM - 6/20/2018 3:50:40 PM

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I have state it before and will repeat it now - the REPUBLICAN started EPA's job is to protect the environment - clean the air and water. It has NOTHING to do with making cars cheaper to produce - because everyone breathes the air and drinks the water.

As far as states going broke - over the most recent decade - with Republicans in charge of most state governments - the governments have lowered taxes on the wealthy - reduced corporate taxes - and FAILED to even come close to funding their STATE Pension benefits. AS a result - the ONCE fiscally conservative have greatly increased debt, debt service, and left the states near Bankruptcy. Since most states do not have the option of debt financed deficits they use creative accounting to more the debt around and hide it in budgets - AND AS WE KNOW eventually the piper MUST BE PAID

countguy - 6/20/2018 4:09:31 PM

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Good.

rlbdcky - 6/22/2018 11:48:36 AM

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Clean air means more control over our lives? I'm breathing easier already! Why don't you move to Russia or some other hellhole that doesn't have an EPA if you're so worried about government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

MDarringer - 6/22/2018 12:16:18 PM

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@ribdcky illogical refutation

rlbdcky - 6/22/2018 4:04:39 PM

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Well first of all, brainiac, it's not just California and Colorado. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia all follow California's higher emissions standards.

rlbdcky - 6/22/2018 5:20:15 PM

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Illogical refutation? Here's my definition: saying clean air standards put in place through legislation and thus public will is communism, but swallowing whole Chairman Trump's tariff pronouncements turning the US auto market into a Soviet-style controlled market is making America great again. Now that's cognitive dissonance.