Mountain States

Missing in Action: Colorado Sits out Boulder’s Supreme Court Fight

When amicus briefs backing Boulder’s climate lawsuit hit the U.S. Supreme Court this week, they arrived stacked with a sprawling coalition of national activist groups, political leaders, and out-of-state governments.

Colorado, for the most part, did not show up.

Neither of the state’s U.S. senators signed onto the 90-member congressional brief supporting Boulder. No additional Colorado city, town, county or other local government joined the local-government brief filed by ten jurisdictions from elsewhere around the country. And Conservation Colorado, along with the state’s other prominent environmental groups, is nowhere on the docket as organizational amici.

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