Senate Transportation & Energy
Senate Transportation & Energy advanced Sen. Tony Exum and Sen. Cathy Kipp's heavily rewritten SB26-002 'Energy Affordability' to Appropriations on a party-line vote, cleared a slate of energy and EV-board confirmations, and heard a sobering briefing that Colorado is unlikely to hit its 2030 electric-vehicle goals.
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Sign in to subscribeSenate and Transportation. The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee will come to order. Ms. Forbes, please call the roll. Senators Bazley. President Catlin. Excused. Excused. Exum. Good afternoon. Linstedt. Present. Malika. Here. Helton R. Here. Sullivan. Excused. Cutter. Excused. And Mr. Chair. Here. Here. Welcome to the Senate Transportation Energy Committee. Today we have a packed agenda. We have confirmation hearings for three different boards. The Orphan Wells Mitigation Enterprise Board, the Energy and Carbon Management Commission, the Community Access enterprise, followed by one bill, Senate Bill 26002. And after that we will hear a presentation on the Electric Vehicle Plan and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Roadmap plan. So we will start with the confirmation for the Orphan Wells Mitigation Enterprise Board. Julie Murphy from the ECMC and DNR is here to introduce our appointee who has been nominated, Christopher Simmons. Ms. Murphy, I see you're online, so I will go over to you to introduce Mr. Simmons and then Mr. Simmons, I'll turn it over to you. Terrific. Thank you. Chair and members of the committee, My name is Julie Murphy. I'm the director of Colorado's Energy and Carbon Management Commission, a division within the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.…
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