The top occupations hiring in Colorado, plus a job where “you’ll never not be employed”: Occupations with the most number of job openings tell economists one main thing: Those industries are constantly looking for workers. Tamara Chuang, Colorado Sun, Apr 17, 2021 If you’re still in job limbo because your former employer shut down, hasn’t reopened or you’re hoping to …
How much percentage GHG reduction with percentage of PV home rooftop systems installed?
I believe so, though there are broad assumptions at play and keeping in mind this is just rooftop solar. The impact of utility scale solar may be significantly bigger. I think on market it could go for $1/watt for capacity vs $3/watt for rooftop. So that means utility scale solar could make 2-3 times the impact at the same level …
Land-Grant Colleges and American Indian Dispossession
Entangled Pasts: Land-Grant Colleges and American Indian Dispossession, Cambridge University Press, 29 October 2019, Margaret A. Nash, Article Land-grant colleges were created in the mid-nineteenth century when the federal government took and then sold off public lands and allowed states to use that money to create colleges. The land that was sold to support colleges was available only because of …
Phil Doe: A better Suncor plan: continuous real-time pollution reporting
March 2021 A Denver Post editorial recently congratulated the Suncor corporation for planning to introduce air +6 monitoring equipment into the communities surrounding the refinery it has owned for 19 years. Cultivando, a community- based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the Latino community develop a stronger sense of civic importance and cohesiveness, has a better proposal. It was developed over …
Transportation GHG action: March 2021 CO & national
Comments: Seattle’s trip reduction rule and programs are the best in the nation. Learn and copy as much as possible. The analysis only mentioned. SanFrancisco, NewYorkCity, programs requiring employers to provide commuter pre‐tax benefits and Portland, OR program where employers must provide commute alternatives to employees designed to minimize cars driven to work. WA State’s successful program requires employers to …
Some Colorado Oil Workers Can See The Shift Away From Fossil Fuels Coming — And They Say They Need Help Navigating It
By Miguel Otárola, CPR, February 26, 2021 Trucks come and go from the EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel mill, a massive facility south of Pueblo. One of the main products workers make here are casings used for oil and gas wells in Texas and North Dakota. Production of the casings stopped last spring when the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices halted …
Black and Latinx metro area residents represent only 12% of people making the average annual wage or more, even though they are 25% of the population. And fewer than half of Black Coloradans and 54% of Latinx own their homes, compared to ~75% of whites
Colorado Sun, February 2021 U.S. News & World Report has ranked Colorado as having the No. 1 economy in the nation and consistently ranks our cities among the top five places to live, with Boulder holding No. 1 and Denver No. 2 for the last two years. Even before the pandemic, not everyone has been able to access the economic and social opportunities we …
Coal supply issue – news
Closures, more volume declines hitting Powder River Basin coal region in U.S., S&P Global Market Intelligence, February 9, 2021. Production in the country’s largest coal-producing basin fell 22 percent in 2020, and two of the region’s largest producers indicate that 2021 may not be much better. Judge orders US officials to weigh coal mine’s climate costs, AP News, February 4, …
Hansen’s transmission bill
ptdoe writes: what is Hansen’s bill really about? Looks like we already have load balancing being evaluated if not fully accomplished–the thing they don’t have in the don’t-mess-with-me state. Is giving the monopolies a free hand to build more transmission lines really a good idea if CCA is approved for use in CO?. And what about the U.S. effort to …
Colorado’s Community Solar Program
BY LILLI AMBORT AND MARIA MCCOY | DATE: 17 FEB 2021 | In 2010, Colorado passed the Community Solar Gardens Act (HB 1342), which enabled the statewide shared renewables pilot program. Colorado expanded the program through legislation (HB 1284) and a 2016 settlement deal with Xcel Energy, but it is still capped at 105 megawatts. The Community Solar Gardens Act encourages creation of community solar gardens by investor owned utilities (IOUs), with …