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Environment Colorado is working with Environment America and with our thousands of members in calling on Congress to pass global warming legislation that delivers science-based reductions in global warming pollution and invests resources in ways that accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy quickly, efficiently, and at the lowest cost to society.

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Brief Summary

It’s now clearer than ever: We need to take action to fight global warming.

We have solutions available: energy efficiency for homes and businesses, solar power in the San Luis Valley, wind farms on the Eastern Plains, bio-fuels from Colorado crops and agricultural waste, and cleaner cars on our roads.

These solutions not only cut the pollution that causes global warming, they also reduce dependence on dirty, dangerous and expensive fossil fuels, and create high-quality jobs.

With fresh new leadership in the state, it is time for Gov. Ritter to set bold goals for reducing global warming pollution and to help Colorado take its rightful place leading the Rocky Mountain West towards real solutions to global warming.

Scientists and experts often talk about the impacts of global warming on a global scale—rising oceans, melting icecaps and changing weather patterns. Colorado is already seeing the effects.

Global warming’s effect on Colorado

Colorado’s mountain snow pack currently acts like a massive natural reservoir that slowly refills drinking and irrigation water supplies as it melts during the hot summer months. Rising temperatures lead to less snow, which threatens our thriving ski industry, and leaves less water for Coloradans to drink and use in their fields.

Wildfires are on the rise. In 2006, nearly 9 million acres burned nationwide. Global warming is expected to create longer, more intense fire seasons in the West.

We have solutions to these problems. Colorado can address climate change by setting hard goals for cutting global warming pollution and take the first step by cutting pollution 30 percent from new cars, light trucks and SUVs.