A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to
Colorado's renewable portfolio standard, finding that the standard does not
disproportionately harm out-of-state businesses.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld a
lower court ruling against the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI),
which argued that Colorado's renewable portfolio standard means that some
out-of-state coal producers will lose business with out-of-state utilities who
feed power onto an interconnected grid serving 11 Western states, Canada and
Mexico.
