Colorado has much to gain and lose from the U.S. Senate s confirmation of Deb Haaland as secretary of the interior Monday.
The vote was close: 51-40, mostly with Republicans in opposition because they see her as a threat to fossil fuels with her strident views on using public land for resources.
Colorado s Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, who have supported Haaland s nomination, missed Monday s vote because flights from Denver International Airport were canceled Sunday due to the blizzard.
She is the first Native American and only the third woman to hold the job. Former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton, a Republican, was the first, when she was nominated by George W. Bush in 2001. Sally Jewell was picked by Barack Obama in 2013.
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A pedestrian walks past the boarded-up windows and front door of the Satellite Bar on Colfax Avenue in Denver, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020.
Just as Congress passed a large federal stimulus package, a bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers announced their own, smaller plan to boost the state’s economy.
A parade of top Democrats and Republicans along with two business owners heaped praise on one another and talked about the months ahead. They spoke surrounded by “Building Back Stronger” signs that reflected President Joe Biden’s national message.
“Colorado will be poised to build back faster, build back stronger,” Gov. Jared Polis said. “I’m proud of our Colorado leaders working in a bipartisan way to do that.”
Before the Fukushima meltdown, officials saw nuclear energy as a way for Japan, a country with limited fossil fuels, to achieve some degree of energy independence. Thirty percent of Japan’s energy came from nuclear power plants, which were supposed to provide half of the country’s energy supply by 2030.
That changed after the March 2011 disaster. Public support for nuclear energy plummeted, and, a year later, all of Japan’s fifty-four reactors had been taken offline. The government also created a new regulatory agency to improve oversight of the nuclear industry.
Still, lawmakers see a scaled-back role for nuclear energy, which produces relatively few greenhouse gases, in meeting Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s October 2020 pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Japan’s most recent energy plan, adopted in 2018, calls for nuclear energy to make up 20–22 percent of the electricity supply by 2030, but officials still debate how much to rely on the power sourc