Sponsors heed business and utilities’ pleas, make changes to PUC reauthorization bill
After a pair of contentious committee hearings in which business groups and utilities asked for several big changes to a proposal authorizing continuation of the…
Energy & Environment
Despite bill death, negotiations on potential data-center incentives continue
The sponsor of a bill to make Colorado competitive for data-center attraction by offering significant incentives reluctantly killed his proposal Thursday — but the possibility…
Data centers, rising utility bills change legislative conversation on emissions cuts
As Colorado leaders have pushed utilities to cut emissions for years, they’ve done so with an underlying assumption that energy demand would remain flat. But…
Legislators advancing bill to clean up plastics regulation Polis signed last month
Roughly one month after Gov. Jared Polis warned while signing a bill regulating disposal of plastic pellets that the new law already needed a critical…
Many changes are requested but few are made as PUC sunset bill gets first OK
Colorado legislators took the first step in reauthorizing and updating the increasingly powerful Public Utilities Commission on Thursday, but they’ll have to decide in the…
Bill to limit use of rat poison meets its legislative end
The sponsor of a bill to sought to make it harder for people to use common forms of rat poison killed her effort this week,…
New law offers grants to replace older commercial trucks with newer gas-burning vehicles
Owners of aging and highly polluting diesel commercial trucks soon will be able to get state grants to help them buy newer and less-polluting —…
Colorado board adopts precedent-setting emissions controls for toxic air contaminants
Manufacturing plants, petroleum refineries and any facilities using gas-fired turbines must begin reducing emissions of five priority toxic air contaminants by 2027 under newly approved…
Polis signs environmental regulation into law — and immediately asks for changes
Gov. Jared Polis signed into law Monday a bill that would prohibit companies from discharging plastic pellets into state waters and many landfills — and…
Committee kills bill dealing with emissions reporting
A bill that sought to make Colorado companies post their reportable emissions on their websites died in a bipartisan vote Thursday, as legislators questioned the…