Colorado will become the 13th state to adopt California’s strict vehicle emissions standards after Governor John Hickenlooper signed an executive order this week.
The move is part of Governor Hickenlooper’s initiative which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state by over 26% by 2025. The state had been on target to hit its goal until the federal government rolled back its fuel efficiency standards.
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, made the controversial decision to abandon the clean air rules back in April. The move was criticized by environment groups, but also by some auto manufacturers who feared that relaxing federal standards would prompt states to increase their own requirements.
With Colorado’s move, it looks like that fear may be coming to pass. And now that another state has adopted California’s guidelines, the lawsuit filed by California and 16 other states against the EPA will likely have even more weight.
“Colorado has a choice. This executive order calls for the state to adopt air quality standards that will protect our quality of life in Colorado,” Hickenlooper said in the statement. “Low-emissions vehicles are increasingly popular with consumers and are better for our air. Every move we make to safeguard our environment is a move in the right direction.”
Source: truckinginfo, cnet, csindy, denverpost, nbc11
Another stupid move by Colorado. I now have another reason to stay out of Colorado. Tourist dollars included.
We stopped going into Cali a looong time ago
California changes their laws more than I change my pants so why should anyone adopt their laws?
If you want to be like California, move to California.
What most folks do not realize , home oil burners or furnaces burn the same fuel . Known as number two . It can also be less refined than diesel at the pump . Now stop and think how many millions of homes are heated with diesel , or number two . At the end of the day the entire notion that these states feel they are doing the right thing clearly is a load of number two .
This is what virtue signalers do nowadays. It makes them feel good about themselves, being progressives. They can look judgmentally at everyone else because in their minds, they are good and people who don’t agree are evil. I made up my mind a long time ago I will never visit a state that legalizes pot, those losers can stay there, and I will stay here in the South, enjoying my backwards living.
What are you going to do when it’s 50 state legal, or the federal government does what Portugal did (which reduced drug related crime, HIV cases, overdoses and death)?
Marijuana ovedoses? Lowering HIV rates? Yeah, that didn’t happen since Portugal had a heroin epidimic. But hey, let’s emulate a 3rd world country. Maybe meth, lsd, crack could be legalized. How did I make it all these years without drugs or alcohol? Time to blaze it up!
Portugal is a third world country? You’re not one of those guys who thinks every place with brown people is Mexico are you?
Do you know the poverty rate of Portugal? The attrition rate? A majority of those people live on less than $1.90 a day, no wonder they can’t afford needles for heroin. Are you one of those people that doesn’t research before replying?
Well, it’s legal in Canada too.
I agree, Shogun….you twist one up and I’ll by a 6 pack, then we can sit in the porch and wonder what we missed all these years
Won’t be driving in through Colorado, Rhode Island and California.
Good move. I’m glad to see more concern about the environment and air quality.
I care about the air I and my family breath. Sure, jobs are important, but so is the health of all of us. Respiratory illness & some cancers are just some of the price we all pay for breathing polluted air.
With more & more vehicles on the road, this has become a serious problem & I’m glad many people & states are responding by taking on the corrupt administration.
Colorado is almost California already. Another great western state going down the drain. Bring those genius VW diesel computer engineers over hear and take care of this ‘problem’. [grin]
“Here”, not hear. Typing too fast.
Now I’m glad I didn’t vote for Hickenloser last week!
Canada, out. California, out. Colorado, out. The places I can drive my 99 freight shaker are dwindling.
I have a 98 and it does not bother me in the least to not go to those states. They do not have a clue as to who we are much less give a serious damn about us. So let them get along without the stuff in my/your box!
The effect is cumulative. Hv a good wind everyone.
I thought Colorado liked smoke!
Their gonna end up saying no one wants to drive in co so we have to get driverless trucks
So, They want cleaner air to breathe? Why did they legalize pot then? That stuff is just as harmful.
I see the dweebs that run TTR are at it again…..I posted a comment this morning, now it isn’t here. Seems those with differing opinions aren’t allowed to express those opinions
I thought colo was up in smoke!!
Colorado signed on to the Panasonic deal( see Panasonic and CDot on the net), Cdot saying there was not enough money to fix our roads. We have the Tabor act which sends over taxes back to the tax payer. The dmv had the legislature do an end run around tabor, which loaded everyone’s cars truck s and trailers with a bridge and road tax, my little utility trailer made in 1955 went from 11.00
dollars to register to 78.00. The Cdot/Panasonic deal is wiring the highways with wifi/transponders and g-cars/uber/cars will be the norm with no driver, in 10 years or less. The CDOT cannot add 2 lanes between castlerock and colorado springs, or longmont to Ft. Collins. No money for that. But all drivers will feel the sting, as I-70 between the mousetrap and Tower road will once again be re-aligned, this time with a below grade freeway from the moustrap to Colorado Blvd. Most of it open to the weather. We all know that drive I-25 that the 6th ave /alameda stretch still floods after re-alignment, and the Viaduct about to be replaced with the below grade on I-70 will flood also.
there are numerous underground springs and such in that area around globeville. 270 is always jammed and a 2 lane, each direction.
where will all the traffic go in the 5 year upgrade, soon to start.???
“best place to live rating” has swamped 1960’s built freeways. There is no vision for the future. The water from the mountains is limited and 83 percent of that is senior water rights for the farmers.
The housing here is priced off the wall. 1800 for a single bedroom apartment.
Hickenlooper is a businessman first. And a follower.
Any sate that follows California is also following the EPA, those two have been in bed for many years.
as soon as pot became legal here, things went in the trash can for good.
liberal, dopehead thinking, not against clean air, just stupid, lemming like moves from people who say they are leaders.
by the way,next time use a picture of Colorado!
Not surprising, this is the same state that wanted to ban semi trucks from I70 because it was an inconvenience to skiers. Wonder how they planned to get supplies to their stupid state.