
This Colorado community was proof an all-electric, net-zero future is possible. Now that vision is under siege
CNN
A new developer took over and upended this net-zero community when it announced natural gas lines would be installed in the newest homes, shattering the dreams of current residents.
As a former engineer at an oil company in Houston, Chang said he conducted research on natural gas -- then considered a "bridge fuel" to transition to renewables -- and found cleaner ways to extract and use fossil fuels. Chang worked there for more than 15 years but said not only was his research on cleaner extraction not used, his concerns about the climate crisis were dismissed.
"So all these things got me thinking of leaving," Chang told CNN. "But more than that, I wanted to leave Houston because my daughter was born just a couple months before Hurricane Ike in 2008."