Washington Times - BORELLI: Denying affordable energy

What environmental elites don't want average Americans to have
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Al Gore, Club Green's unofficial spiritual leader, lectured in Washington, D.C. in July about phasing out fossil fuels. Despite his righteous talk about stopping the "catastrophic" effects of global warming, Mr. Gore can't seem to walk the walk. Mr. Gore flys in private planes, and his Tennessee mansion uses almost 20 times the energy of the average American home. He was chauffeured to his July speech in a gas-guzzling motorcade of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV. There's nothing wrong with enjoying one's wealth, but it's hypocritical when Mr. Gore asks [actually, he wants to tell] others to sacrifice their standards of living but does not seem to do so himself.

CDOT penalized more than $500,000 for polluting streams : The Rocky Mountain News

It is also unusual, though not unprecedented, for health regulators to punish fellow state agencies. In 2004, they fined CDOT contractors $215,000 for sediment runoff from the T-REX project into the South Platte River.
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CDOT won't pay the $506,385 administrative settlement as a fine but will spend the money on initiatives to improve the agency's environmental performance and the environment in general.
...$25,000 will cover Colorado's membership in a group developing a way to track the state's global warming emissions.