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Denver Looks to Incentivize Climate Mitigation

June 11, 2007

Admittedly, not as ominous a headline as the Drudge Report’s overheated, ” ‘Warming’ Plan in Denver: Crackdown on Residents,” but much more accurate. Here is what Denver is considering:

Making heavy users of electricity and natural gas pay more

Charging residents who throw away a lot of trash

Setting energy-efficiency standards for new construction

Giving carpoolers and hybrids priority for parking

A brutal crackdown, indeed.

One Response to “Denver Looks to Incentivize Climate Mitigation”

  1. Chris says:

    That’s a start but there are very many other issues on which we should influence our leaders and decision makers. Triage for one (www.climatechangetriage.net) – a technique to help us decide whether we are throwing our taxpayers’ dollars into a lost cause or a cause that doesn’t need our help. It’s a way of helping us identify on more objective grounds the things that private citizens can do as well as governments – and the interactions and influences between the two.