State Rep. Jenny Willford schooled lawmakers this week on the science behind her bill to micromanage even the tiniest of emissions from every source in the state based on the environmental research of Dr. Seuss.
Bypassing Suess’s more controversial banned works including Scrambled Eggs Super! and The Cat’s Quizzer, the Northglenn Democrat held up The Lorax as the best science available based on made-up words used to create delightful rhymes.
That’s how Democrats Colorado!
The bill kneecaps the beer and donut business among others with costly and unnecessary regulations to ostensibly save the environment from every single emission created on humankind’s behalf.
The legislation also contained a provision to impose trip reductions on businesses telling them how many employees may commute in their own vehicle or be sacrificed to use public transportation, bicycles, or their feet to get to work.
But it appears that poison pill was just a place holder for an even more absurd regulation that was slipped in its place at the last minute with zero review or input from the public.
The Denver Gazette explains the bill now includes a sweeping regulation that gives state government the power to deny or revoke any construction permit to modify any building that might increase ozone by any amount — because buildings are racist.
Read it and weep woke tears:
The bill’s sponsors argue the legislation is necessary because Coloradans, particularly people of color and residents of low-income communities, have long suffered from high levels of ozone pollution, which is connected to severe health effects and premature death.
Emissions must be racist, they would have us believe, because smog and pollution commute to Colorado from as far away as Asia only to hang above homes inhabited by people of color along the Front Range. We’re guessing that’s based on the science of Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown.
Emmett Lathrop Brown
The Gazette continues:
The newly amended bill includes a section that allows denial or revocation of an air pollution or construction permit for any modification to any building, including minor sources, that “increases the amount of any air pollutant emitted by the source by any amount on an annual or hourly basis; or results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted by the source.”
The repercussions of this legislation go far beyond kneecapping the oil and gas industry.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where they have more serious issues to address rather than regulating bakeries and brewery out of business in Colorado and declaring smog racist.