Boulder County

But we'll begin with Section 1, They Knew, opening with clips from Episode 1827.

The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear arguments in a case involving a lawsuit by Boulder County, Colorado, against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy.

Before we get to the Supreme Court case, what is Boulder County suing these companies for?

All across the United States, from Maine to Hawaii, dozens of state and local governments are right now suing major oil and gas companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP.

for deceiving the public about their fossil fuel products role in the climate crisis, to hold them accountable for that deception, and to make them pay for the associated damages that they caused.

These companies knew they were selling a harmful product, they lied to protect their profits, And now communities like Boulder are saying they need to be held accountable and pay for the damages that their deception has caused.

And, you know, for Boulder, this question of who should pay for climate damages is not theoretical.

In 2021, part of Boulder County was hit by the Marshall Fire.

They have a very minority of people from the town that actually work at the ski area, a relative minority who make up the visitation there.

So there's a little bit of a feeling of Boulder County and beyond skiers that Eldora is being held hostage by the town of Netherlands desires to put itself on the map.

And this just isn't the right way to go about it.

So let's talk a little bit about Eldora and what it's realistically going to take to run this place in a modern Colorado.

That seems, you know, that is a better expert range.

So that's where the thinking has evolved to.

Now, if we go back to pre-Icon Pass, we want it to be Boulder County's beginner ski area.

So when we look not just at short-term return on investment, but on long-term impact on growing the sport, there's one for you, we would put in the new Jolly Jug lift, which is low angle.

And so there's a lot of media and press around that today.

What do you have your eye on in terms of cases that might impact the business community? I mean, let's start with the first one, which is Suncor Energy versus commissioners in Boulder County.

And that's being argued, I think, as we speak right now as we're recording this.

That's right.

And meanwhile, people are struggling.

I spent earlier this week a day with residents of a mobile home park in Boulder County who are trying to buy their mobile home park.

They have a right of first refusal to be able to do so.

These are incredible families, working class families who are struggling, but who are banding together to try to do their part.

And we're seeing that the highest rates are in some of these more affluent counties in Colorado.

like Boulder County, some of the ski country counties, which include Vail, Breckenridge, Aspen.

And so we're really wondering why they're so high in these specific counties.

So we've performed logistic regression modeling to find the association between the socioeconomic or structural factors that we're looking at with ILC diagnosis.