The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver says Colorado’s mandate that the state’s biggest utilities get 30 percent of their power supplies from renewable resources is legal.
Renewable energy supporters hailed the ruling as precedent-setting protection for the 29 state-level renewable energy standards.
On the other hand, the Washington, D.C.-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute, which filed the case in 2011, called it a “brief, harmful opinion straying from well-established precedent.”
In…
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver says Colorado’s mandate that the state’s biggest utilities get 30 percent of their power supplies from renewable resources is legal.
Renewable energy supporters hailed the ruling as precedent-setting protection for the 29 state-level renewable energy standards.
On the other hand, the Washington, D.C.-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute, which filed the case in 2011, called it a “brief, harmful opinion straying from well-established precedent.”
In…