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Posted on 10/05/2026 7:07:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Boulder, Colorado, has spent decades wearing a nickname most towns would take as an insult: “The People's Republic of Boulder.” It’s a college town of roughly 100,000 people, where the politics climb about as high as … the elevation. But now Boulder wants to export its “Rocky Mountain High,” and it’s headed to the Supreme Court.
At stake before SCOTUS is whether that town gets to set energy policy for the rest of America. That’s the real question in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, no matter how carefully supporters dress it up.
In 2018, the City of Boulder, Boulder County, and San Miguel County sued in Colorado state court arguing energy companies’ products fueled climate change and that the companies should cover whatever local costs these opportunistic politicians wanted.
Translation: Sell a legal product to willing customers around the world, and a county in Colorado can bill you for the weather.
Boulder insists it isn’t trying to regulate anyone’s emissions. One of its own lawyers forgot the script. David Bookbinder, who helped file the case for Boulder told a Federalist Society panel that tort liability is “an indirect carbon tax” and the lawsuit is “somewhat of a convoluted way to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”
Congress has refused to pass a carbon tax for decades because voters won’t stand for one. So the activists went shopping for a courtroom instead.
This is how the green movement operates when it can’t win an honest vote. Pick one friendly jurisdiction, score a win where nobody’s watching, then export the result to everyone else.
California perfected the method. Its rule to end sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035 was never put before the people of Ohio or Virginia.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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I used to live near The People’s Republic of Boulder so I am not surprised.
If I understand that correctly, I want nothing to do with it. It’s just like Calif. trying to set vehicle emissionfor the whole U.S. Tell Colo. to stuff it; it can’t produce anything good.
No one should sell fuel or any form of carbon based energy in Boulder.
They have some great weed, man.
No one dares to wear a Trump hat or Trump bumper stickers. Your car will be vandalized and you will be assaulted.
That is true. They don't coexist very well with conservatives.
California perfected the method.
because the most gullible people tend to vote ...
The majority of the C02 in the air over Boulder that might be impacting Boulder came mainly from where?
Stand near a busy highway.
Do you get any sort of location-based warm feeling?
Much of my wife’s family lived in Boulder before it was “Californicated”. Most left because of the insanity
Bit of trivia...Boulder is where Tom Horn is buried.
That’s where Mork and Mindy lived.
Just petulant of those libtards.
Unfortunately.
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