Empower Our Future

Clean Energy. Local Control.

Action

Boulder

Attend an “Empower Hour” – see more information on the “Events” page

Speak at City Council during “open comments” in support of progress on clean energy and/or on the urgency of the climate crisis.

Send an email to City Council in support of progress on clean energy and/or on the urgency of the climate crisis.

Write a letter to the editor in support of progress on clean energy and/or on the urgency of the climate crisis. (For topic ideas check our News page.) Letters should be no more than 300 words. Include your name, address and daytime telephone number.

  • Daily Camera – openforum@prairiemountainmedia.com
  • Boulder Weekly – letters@boulderweekly.com

Time Sensitive Actions

Don't Want Nuclear? Testify!

Make Comments at this Colorado Senate Transportation and Energy Hearing Weds Jan 24, 2023, 1:30 pm
 
Sign up to testify on the Colorado General Assembly webpage under “Committees” and “Public Testimony Options”
 
Direct link is
You can speak in person or virtually
 

Public comment needed at the Public Utilities Commission on Xcel's 'Clean Heat Plan' through March 2024

The PUC’s Xcel Clean Heat Plan proceeding provides a new opportunity to transition away from dependence on polluting fossil methane gas by making efficient electric heat pumps more affordable for thousands of people, but Xcel’s proposal falls far short of Colorado’s new Clean Heat standard AND raises customer rates to pay for costly new gas experiments like “hydrogen blending”, “recovered natural gas” and “certified natural gas.”  

To learn more about the Xcel Clean Heat Plan, please watch the Physicians for Social Responsibility webinar from November 2023, co-hosted with the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, here

TO MAKE COMMENTS TO THE PUC:

Include the proceeding number:  23A-0392EG Public Service Company – Clean Heat Plan

  • Via the Commission’s online form (opens in new window)
  • By email at dora_puc_website@state.co.us
  • By mail to the Commission’s offices at: Colorado Public Utilities Commission, 1560 Broadway, Suite 250, Denver, CO 80202
  • By phone at any time by calling (303) 869-3490 and leaving a voicemail. Verbal comments can be provided in English and Spanish.

Brief comments, in your own words, are best.

Statewide

350 Colorado’s Action Dashboard

Boulder Rights of Nature 

Clean Energy Action

Citizens’ Climate Lobby legislation, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, is in the Senate. Learn how it works.  See the Citizens’ Climate Lobby website to take action and to support it (see “Take Action”). Support for CCL’s rationale includes Professor Michael E. Mann,  who is recognized around the world as a leading expert on climate change. Read (or listen to) his July 2, 2021 Op-ed in the Allegheny Front.

Colorado Rising

New Era Colorado – see their drop-down menu “Take Action”