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    Energy

    Jan 11 2025

    Take Action: Protect Colorado’s Climate Investments

    By sjca Climate Change, Take Action
    Tell Congressman Hurd to support southwestern Colorado and vote to keep Inflation Reduction Act funding!
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    Feb 15 2023
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    Enchant Energy Update

    By Mike Eisenfeld Coal, Energy Transition, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy
    we need YOU to call or email our county commissioners and tell them to not defer to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) in Denver, but rather protect our public health by taking local leadership in setting setback…
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    Dec 13 2022

    Chapter 90 Updated Talking Points

    By Emelie Frojen Energy Transition, Renewable Energy
    we need YOU to call or email our county commissioners and tell them to not defer to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) in Denver, but rather protect our public health by taking local leadership in setting setback…
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    Dec 05 2022

    Chapter 90 La Plata County Commission Talking Points

    By Emelie Frojen Energy Transition, Events, Renewable Energy
    La Plata County is hosting a public hearing to hear your thoughts on the setbacks and we are urging our members to make their voice heard by showing up and advocating for a 2,000ft setback.
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    Oct 31 2022

    EPC City Council Talking Points

    By Emelie Frojen Energy Transition, Events, Renewable Energy
    The City Council is voting (on Tuesday 11/1) on whether to stick with the contract going forward and have energy efficiency and solar upgrades performed. SJCA is urging the city council to stick with the full EPC!
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    Sep 02 2021

    Opportunities abound for engagement on climate change

    By Mark Pearson Climate Change, Durango Herald Column
    A friend recently lamented the apparent disappearance of Colorado’s trademark cobalt blue skies, those piercingly clear summer days in the mountains when you can see almost forever. Instead, our peaks and valleys are obscured by smoke in a ritual repeated…
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    May 26 2021

    Electric Co-ops Boost Local Energy Supplies

    By Mark Pearson Durango Herald Column, Renewable Energy
    An inspiring story of rapid energy transition is playing out in a neighboring rural electric cooperative in northern New Mexico. Just recently, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative announced it is ahead of schedule to complete several solar projects by the end…
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    Dec 15 2018
    Tri-State Go Renewable

    Change Confronts Rural Electric Co-ops

    By Mark Pearson Climate Change, Coal, Durango Herald Column, Green Business, Renewable Energy
    Photo: Wildearth Guardians, Flickr The comedian Lily Tomlin used to have a favorite shtick where she played Ernestine, the snorting, smirking phone operator. She would end her bit with the line, “We don’t care, we don’t have to, we’re the…
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    Dec 05 2018
    BLM Lease sale protest Dec 5, 2018

    Greater Chaco Advocates Rally at BLM to Protest Lease Sale

    By sjca Climate Change, Oil & Gas
    Photo: WildEarth Guardians We've been working to protect the Greater Chaco region from rampant and largely uncontrolled drilling for over ten years. Sadly, the need for protections is only increasing. Our partners organized a rally of over 200 people to…
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