The Colorado State Senate Transportation and Energy Committee passes a bill which the American Petroleum Institute says ‘threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’. The Colorado State Senate Transportation & Energy Committee has passed a bill which the American Petroleum Institute (API) says “threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs”. In an organization statement posted on its website, the API said bill SB19-181 would “at the very least hinder, if not prohibit” energy development in Colorado, “directly threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars of state revenue and hundreds of millions in education funding”. Tracee Bentley, executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council, said in an organization statement that SB19-181 contains “the most overreaching provisions of any energy proposal we have ever reviewed and all but guarantees that industry will be forbidden from operating in certain jurisdictions”. “This bill simply goes too far. There are far too many unintended […]