Committee kills bill to prevent drilling of future oil-and-gas wells
A proposed ban on new oil-and-gas wells failed to make it out of its first legislative committee Thursday, dying after a nearly nine-hour hearing in…
Energy & Environment
Legislators remove local-control provision from environmental-cleanup bill
A bill to offer more environmental protections to disproportionately impacted communities is advancing in the Colorado Legislature, but without a key provision that would have…
Senators advance seasonal oil-and-gas activity pause, industrial fine increases
Legislators looking to ramp up both regulations against air-quality violators and the enforcement of those laws advanced two major pieces of legislation Wednesday, despite warnings…
Packaging producers could pay more than $300M to launch statewide recycling system
The long-anticipated price tag for Colorado to establish a statewide recycling system is in — as much as $310 million to implement a recommended “medium”…
Proposal expands list of products made with “forever chemicals” that would be banned
Colorado legislators began advancing a bill Tuesday that bans the use of “forever chemicals” in an increasing amount of consumer products — but also began…
First air-quality regulatory boost clears initial legislative committee
A Colorado House committee advanced the first bill out of a set of significant air-quality proposals Thursday — a measure that that would ramp up…
Bill would reverse major business concessions in new manufacturing emissions rules
A trio of Democratic legislators has introduced a bill that would overturn many of the major concessions that business leaders won in a rulemaking process…
Polis rolls out new emissions reduction roadmap, complete with near-term action plan
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday unveiled an updated version of Colorado’s three-year-old Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap, featuring 49 new short-term actions to help the…
Dems unveil “system-changer” bills to limit oil and gas drilling, new emissions
The work of the interim committee on ozone pollution became manifest Thursday, as Colorado Democrats rolled out a trio of bills to ramp up regulation…
Colorado board approves greenhouse gas emissions fees for companies
The 105 Colorado companies responsible for producing the largest amount of greenhouse gases will begin paying to fund the state’s efforts to reduce such pollution…