Western Colorado Alliance

- passed hb21-1131, the cooperative electric association's governance requirement act; increasing transparency and putting in place basic democratic checks and balances on electrical companies to ensure fair pricing and local control for rural electric cooperatives. - worked with mesa county commissioners to approve commercial property assessed clean energy, a program supporting renewable energy and energy and water efficiency programs for businesses in the grand valley. - expanded access to local markets for ranchers, allowing them to sell portions of their livestock directly to consumers by passing sb21-079, the deregulate meat sales direct to consumers act. - won increased leak detection and repair rates for oil and gas sites across the state and prohibited the venting of methane and toxic emissions during maintenance activities, creating the nation's toughest program to limit oil and gas facilities from leaking greenhouse gas and air toxics. - helped Colorado achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals by prohibiting venting and flaring of natural gas. It is estimated these new rules will result in a 51% reduction in methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 2030, helping Colorado meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets set by state law in 2019. - organized students across the Western slope to pass a historic "postvention" mental health bill to enhance care and resources for those affected by suicide, hb21-1119, the suicide prevention, intervention, & postvention act. - won local funding for and organized 700 responses from residents to complete a childcare needs assessment for montrose county. - brought west slope voices to Washington dc, lobbying for specific provisions in the infrastructure and build back better legislation to benefit Western Colorado's landscapes and people. -won 11.3 billion for abandoned mine lands funding with the passage of the infrastructure package, addressing a funding shortage to clean up and reclaim thousands of abandoned coal mines across the west.