Repealing Power Plant Emissions Rules, Lakewood Zoning Overreach, and the Courts vs. the Executive

On the June 17, 2025 broadcast, Kim Monson examines regulatory overreach from Washington to Lakewood with Bob Boswell of Laramie Energy, former Lakewood City Councilwoman Mary Janssen, personal injury attorney Jon Boesen, and Epoch Times Washington correspondent Sam Dorman, connecting the dots between energy policy, property rights, driving safety, and a judiciary testing the limits of executive authority. EPA Power Plant Emissions Rollback and Colorado Energy Policy Start listening at 31:58 – Hour 1 Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy, explains why the Trump EPA’s move to repeal greenhouse gas emissions limits on power plants represents a long-overdue correction. Boswell argues that much of the climate change narrative is built on linear modeling that fails to capture the Earth’s complex systems, and that CO2 at 400 parts per million is far below the 1,100 ppm level at which plant life thrives most. He warns that renewable energy mandates in Colorado and California strip away consumer choice, double infrastructure costs by requiring fossil fuel backup systems, and ultimately drive up electricity prices for working families. Turning to Colorado’s Western Slope, Boswell details how his company operates in the Piceance Basin and pays 80% of the local tax base in Collbran, a small community of 250 students now saddled with a $70 million school bond. If overregulation forces Laramie Energy to curtail operations, that bond burden shifts to ranchers and residents whose property taxes would need to increase fivefold. Boswell also highlights that Colorado has shifted from a budget surplus to a $1.2 billion deficit, driven in part by 21 new fees the legislature has imposed to circumvent TABOR’s voter-approval requirement for tax increases. Governor Polis, Boswell notes, has begun vetoing some of the most extreme regulatory measures, signaling a nascent recognition that ideology cannot replace economic reality. “Renewables have a role, but they’re a supplement, not a replacement. And so what the Trump administration is doing is recognizing, kind of the reality of the science, of the reliability of the different field choices, and taking away these mandates and saying it’s got to be consumer choice.” Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy Lakewood’s Zoning Rewrite Threatens Property Rights Start listening at 16:43 – Hour 1 Mary Janssen, former Lakewood City Councilwoman and Colorado Union of Taxpayers board member, warns that Lakewood’s sweeping zoning rewrite is a calculated assault on property rights disguised as an affordable housing initiative. Drawing on her 2022-2023 council tenure, Janssen reveals how the city’s legislative committee advanced a right-of-first-refusal ordinance allowing government to purchase apartment buildings before private buyers, a move she now connects to the zoning plan’s explicit goal of raising property values, which in turn raises taxes and pushes private landlords toward distressed sales to the government. Janssen describes a pattern of deliberate opacity: zoning amendment documents are not posted publicly, council leaders tell residents to “just trust us,” and contentious measures are scheduled right before holidays to avoid scrutiny. She credits the Lakewood Informer and investigative work by Karen Gorday for shining a light on the rewrite, and she urges residents across Colorado to push back before similar density mandates reach their own communities. “They just don’t want to tell you what’s going on because they think they know what’s best for you.” Mary Janssen, Former Lakewood...