Colorado renewed and expanded its mandate for electric vehicles to take over the state new car market in coming years, passing a requirement for EVs to make up 82% of dealer lots by 2032.
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
Colorado air-quality regulators have walked back plans to require the early closure of three Colorado coal-fired power plants, including the Craig Station in Moffat County that is responsible for hundreds of jobs in northwest Colorado.
The Air Quality Control Commission on Wednesday unanimously reversed a preliminary decision it made last month to require the Craig Station, the Platte River Power Authorityâs Rawhide plant and Colorado Springsâ Ray Nixon plant to close by the end of 2028 to address regional haze that impacts national parks and wilderness areas.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association operates the Craig Station, and has planned to close the plant by the end of 2029. The other two plants reportedly have planned 2030 closing dates.