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Stakeholders urge removal of energy‑cost appendices, saying cost method biases against electrification
Summary
Multiple public commenters — health professionals, local officials, environmental groups and former legislators — urged the board to remove optional appendices that allow energy‑cost based compliance, saying the approach understates health and social costs and could reintroduce a bias toward fossil fuels.
Speakers from health, local government, environmental and advocacy groups urged the Colorado Energy Code Board to remove appendices CL and RM, which would allow energy cost–based compliance as an alternative to the board’s proposed site‑energy targets.
Dr. Kate Jennings, an internal medicine physician, told the board that on‑site combustion of fuels “cost Colorado about $2,000,000,000 in health care impacts per…
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