EPA: Please regulate carbon dioxide emssions
Text of my testimony before the EPA yesterday (July 30, 2014): Good afternoon. My name is Ross Cunniff. I am a Fort Collins City Council member, but I am speaking only on my own behalf today. My father was born and raised in Colorado. Although he left Colorado to serve in the US Army, we returned frequently in the 1960s and 1970s to visit our family here. I have vivid memories of Colorado from those days. I remember startling blue skies, fast-running mountain streams, tree-covered hillsides, and snow-capped mountain-tops. My wife and I moved to Colorado in 1987 to raise our family. Although many more people lived here by then, the character of the state was much the same as I remembered, and we delighted in sharing it with our daughters as they grew up. However, the past decade has seen significant change for the worse. Colorado is not the same as it was when I was growing up. The view of the Front Range is frequently obscured...