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Colorado's Roadmap for Clean Energy COLORADO’S ROADMAP FOR CLEAN ENERGY ACTION: LESSONS FROM STATE AND LOCAL LEADERS HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD AUGUST 1, 2019 Serial No. 116–8 ( www.govinfo.gov Printed for the use of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 37–993 WASHINGTON : 2019 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:07 Nov 01, 2019 Jkt 037993 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 E:\HR\OC\A993.XXX A993 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with GALLEY-HROC SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS KATHY CASTOR, Florida, Chair BEN RAY LUJA´ N, New Mexico GARRET GRAVES, Louisiana, SUZANNE BONAMICI, Oregon Ranking Member JULIA BROWNLEY, California MORGAN GRIFFITH, Virginia JARED HUFFMAN, California GARY PALMER, Alabama A. DONALD MCEACHIN, Virginia BUDDY CARTER, Georgia MIKE LEVIN, California CAROL MILLER, West Virginia SEAN CASTEN, Illinois KELLY ARMSTRONG, North Dakota JOE NEGUSE, Colorado ANA UNRUH COHEN, Majority Staff Director MARTY HALL, Minority Staff Director climatecrisis.house.gov (II) VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:07 Nov 01, 2019 Jkt 037993 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A993.XXX A993 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with GALLEY-HROC C O N T E N T S STATEMENTS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Page Hon. Kathy Castor, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, and Chair, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: Opening Statement ........................................................................................... 1 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 3 Hon. Garrett Graves, a Representative in Congress from the State of Lou- isiana, and Ranking Member, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: Opening Statement ........................................................................................... 16 WITNESS: PANEL 1 Hon. Jared Polis, Governor, State of Colorado Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 7 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 9 WITNESSES: PANEL 2 Hon. Suzanne Jones, Mayor, City of Boulder, Colorado Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 24 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 26 Hon. Wade Troxell, Mayor, City of Fort Collins, Colorado Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 34 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 36 Cary Weiner, State Energy Specialist and Director, Colorado State University (CSU) Extension and Rural Energy Center Colorado State University Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 38 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 39 Chris Wright, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman, Liberty Oil- field Services and Liberty Resources Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 41 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 43 Heidi VanGenderen, Chief Sustainability Officer, University of Colorado-Boul- der Oral Statement ................................................................................................. 44 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 46 SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Report, Source characterization of volatile organic compounds in the Colorado Northern Front Range Metropolitan Area during spring and summer 2015, submitted for the record by Mr. Neguse ............................................................ 65 Report, Process-Based and Regional Source Impact Analysis for FRAPPE´ and DISCOVER–AQ 2014, submitted for the record by Mr. Neguse .............. 65 Article from CIRES UC-Boulder, ‘‘Accounting for Ozone,’’ submitted for the record by Mr. Graves ........................................................................................... 69 APPENDIX Questions for the Record from Hon. Kathy Castor to Hon. Jared Polis ............. 69 Questions for the Record from Hon. Kathy Castor to Hon. Suzanne Jones ....... 72 Questions for the Record from Hon. Kathy Castor to Hon. Wade Troxell .......... 75 Questions for the Record from Hon. Kathy Castor to Cary Weiner .................... 76 Questions for the Record from Hon. Kathy Castor to Heidi VanGenderen ........ 78 (III) VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:07 Nov 01, 2019 Jkt 037993 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A993.XXX A993 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with GALLEY-HROC VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:07 Nov 01, 2019 Jkt 037993 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A993.XXX A993 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with GALLEY-HROC COLORADO’S ROADMAP FOR CLEAN ENERGY ACTION: LESSONS FROM STATE AND LOCAL LEADERS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2019 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 9:10 a.m., at University of Colorado-Boulder, 2450 Kittredge Loop Dr., Wolf Law Building 401 UCB, Wittemyer Courtroom, Boulder, CO, Hon. Kathy Castor presiding. Present: Representatives Castor, Casten, Neguse, and Graves. Also present: Representative DeGette. Chairwoman CASTOR. Welcome, everyone, to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, our first national field hearing. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the Chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I am Congresswoman Kathy Castor of Florida. I am honored to be here in the great State of Colorado. Without objection, Representative Diana DeGette, the gentle- woman from Colorado, shall be permitted to join the committee on the dais and be recognized for questioning of witnesses. Today we will discuss Colorado’s state and local efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the deployment of clean en- ergy and clean vehicles at the Select Committee’s first field hear- ing. So I recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an opening state- ment. Thank you all for joining us today for the committee’s first field hearing. I am excited to be in the great State of Colorado as the committee works to develop a national climate plan. We need to build on what is working in states and communities across this great country. It is appropriate that we are here on Colorado Day. It is the 143rd anniversary of Colorado becoming a state. [Applause.] Chairwoman CASTOR. Natural resources have always been a crit- ical part of Colorado’s economy. Today, in this century of the cli- mate crisis, those resources also include the intellectual and entre- preneurial resources. We have seen some of these in the past cou- ple of days at the National Renewable Energy Lab, NCAR, NOAA, and with scientists and students here at UC-Boulder. They are doing the cutting-edge research on the climate crisis and the solu- (1) VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:07 Nov 01, 2019 Jkt 037993 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 E:\HR\OC\A993.XXX A993 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with GALLEY-HROC 2 tions to tackle the crisis. We are also honored that our recent House of Representatives colleague, now Governor Polis, is spend- ing part of his first Colorado Day as governor with us. When we say the states are the laboratories of democracy, we mean that literally here. Colorado is home to some of the leading research in climate change and clean energy. And one of the most important things we can do as policymakers is make sure that clean technology can move from the lab to the market. That is what creates jobs, that is what cuts pollution, and that is what makes America the leader in clean energy. We need to build the clean energy economy to solve the climate crisis. Colorado in particular has been a leader in the clean energy rev- olution. In the 2019 legislative session, the Governor and the Colo- rado legislature have added to Colorado’s clean energy legacy by enacting several bills focused on deploying more energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. Equally important, they also created new programs to support the energy workforce, the clean energy workforce. Today we will be learning more about those policies and their benefits from a variety of perspectives to inform the Select Committee’s work. The climate crisis is the challenge of our lifetime. When we con- front it, it makes us realize that we are all in this together and that it will take creativity, innovation, and persistence by everyone to solve it. Those same qualities are what helped America land the first person on the moon. Recently, we celebrated the 50th anniver- sary of the Apollo 11 mission. Those first steps on the moon proved that America can do anything when we work together. I have al- ways found an extra measure of inspiration in Apollo because I am from Florida, and because when I first came to Congress I had the honor of inheriting John F. Kennedy’s office in the Cannon House Office Building. A lot of people don’t know this, but JFK was also the first presi- dent to receive a warning about how humans were changing our climate. Every president since then has received
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