Colorado surges past 100K electric vehicles on the road
CoPIRG highlights top 10 policies that helped accelerate EV adoption
Executive Director, CoPIRG Foundation
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., University of Virginia
Danny has been the director of CoPIRG for over a decade. Danny co-authored a groundbreaking report on the state’s transit, walking and biking needs and is a co-author of the annual “State of Recycling” report. He also helped write a 2016 Denver initiative to create a public matching campaign finance program and led the early effort to eliminate predatory payday loans in Colorado. Danny serves on the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Efficiency and Accountability Committee, CDOT’s Transit and Rail Advisory Committee, RTD’s Reimagine Advisory Committee, the Denver Moves Everyone Think Tank, and the I-70 Collaborative Effort. Danny lobbies federal, state and local elected officials on transportation electrification, multimodal transportation, zero waste, consumer protection and public health issues. He appears frequently in local media outlets and is active in a number of coalitions. He resides in Denver with his family, where he enjoys biking and skiing, the neighborhood food scene and raising chickens.
CoPIRG highlights top 10 policies that helped accelerate EV adoption
As Colorado surges past 100,000 electric vehicles on the road, we're looking back at an impressive list of policies that have fueled the growth in clean cars, trucks and buses.
A conversation on the do’s and don’ts for what you put in your bin
Our 7th annual State of Recycling and Compositing in Colorado report finds the state is still one of the worst when it comes to recycling. But a flurry of state and local actions in recent years has the future looking much greener.
Colorado is a national leader with major policies like Right to Repair, Producer Responsibility and bans on single-use plastic. Local innovation highlights opportunities to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost.