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| RMCO News Releases and Statements | ||
October 1, 2009: RMCO and Natural Resources Defense Council released National Parks In Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption. The report documents that climate disruption is the greatest threat ever to our national parks, lists the 25 most endangered parks, and makes 32 recommendations for actions to protect the parks.August 24, 2009: RMCO president Stephen Saunders testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Parks about climate disruption in national parks and management options. February 12, 2009: RMCO director of programs Tom Easley testified in the Colorado General Assembly in support of a bill to fund Colorado Water Conservation Board water adaptation programs, many of which were included in Governor Ritter's Colorado Climate Action Agenda and also in RMCO's Climate Action Panel recommendations. January 29, 2009: RMCO director of programs Tom Easley testified in the Colorado General Assembly in support of a bill to clarify that rural electric cooperatives can set graduated rates based on a consumer's level of electricity consumption, as recommended by RMCO's Climate Action Panel: June 10, 2008: RMCO recommended that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strengthen its draft strategy for dealing with the water quality effects of climate change by focusing more on the impacts likely to occur in the West: April 28, 2008: In the first major action of the administration of Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., to achieve the kind of reductions in heat-trapping gases that will be needed to meet the state climate-protection goals the governor established (accepting a key recommendation of RMCO's Climate Action Panel), the Colorado Public Utilities Commission is now considering a proposed plan by Xcel Energy (through its subsidiary, the Public Service Company of Company) for how it will supply electricity to Coloradans in the future. RMCO weighed in with the PUC, recommending that it require Xcel, through a combination of demand-side management measures and clean-energy sources, to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide by 20% by 2020: April 12, 2008: RMCO commented on a draft plan by a task force of the Western Governors' Association to promote the establishment of wildlife corridors in the West to help wildlife deal with changes in habitat resulting from climate change: |
January 14, 2008: RMCO issued a news release on the prediction by the U.S. Forest Service and the Colordao State Forester that, because of warmer temperatures and drought, mountain pine beetles have spread so much that all of Colorado's mature lodgepole pine forests would be "killed" within three to five years. "Without global warming, we would not be losing our lodgepole forests," said RMCO president Stephen Saunders: December 8, 2007: The Rocky Mountain News published an opinion-editorial column by RMCO president Stephen Saunders supporting the decision by Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., to have Colorado consider adopting California's standards require new cars and trucks to emit fewer heat-trapping gases.October 10, 2007: Mayors John Hickenlooper of Denver, Doug Hutchinson of Fort Collins, and Steve Burkholder of Lakewood announce that the Project Directors of the Colorado Climate Project have approved the recommenations of the Climate Action Panel which they appointed:September 13, 2007: The Climate Action Panel approves its recommendations for actions to reduce Colorado's contribution and vulnerability to climate change: April 6, 2007: RMCO comments on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on the impacts of climate change. “This is the most February 2, 2007: RMCO comments on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on the basic science of climate change. “The world’s scientists have done their job, and now it’s up to the rest of us. With the overwhelming |
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