Joint Senate Transportation & Energy and House Energy & Environment
On a Friday afternoon that ran long enough to bump a hearing on rolling power shutoffs to a later date, the joint energy committees absorbed the governor's lean budget and a battery of SMART Act briefings — punctuated by a state auditor's finding that thousands of oil-and-gas reports are missing or riddled with errors, an active data-falsification investigation at the ECMC, and community testimony describing an asthma-and-nosebleed crisis around the Suncor refinery.
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“14 of the 30 operators in our sample didn't file any emissions data with CDPHE in calendar year 2023, even though they reported oil and gas production. And then another seven submitted incomplete data. Without all the required data, CDPHE cannot determine if the state is meeting its greenhouse gas reduction goals.”
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Sign in to subscribeAll right. Am I on? Can y' all hear me? Hello. Hi. I think I can. We good? Okay. I can't hear me anyway. Welcome to. I don't have a go. Welcome to the Smart Act. I do have a gavel. Getting a gavel ready. We're a little rusty, folks. Give us just a second. In a couple months. Okay. The energy. The Joint Energy and Environment Smart act will come to order. Ms. Falco, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Basley. Excused. Ball. Here. Barone. Excused. Caldwell. Excused. Catlin. Excused. DeGraff. Excused. Exum. Exam might be on the wall. Excused. Goldstein. Here. Jackson. Excused. Joseph. Excused. Olmsted. Excused. Moloka. Here. There's one. Pascal. Here. Elton. Here. Rutinel. Here. Saw. Is that right? Saw. I haven't had to say it yet. Saw. Okay. Senator Catlin's here. Okay. Smith. I'm here. Sullivan. Here. Velasco. Wilford. Excused. Cutter. Present. Mr. Chair. I'm here. All right, folks, so we're a little bit behind schedule, but we will be keeping to a pretty tight schedule as we move through today. So for those of our presenters, please try to stay within the allotted time. This will be the joint Budget Committee to start…
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