Colorado commission sets health-based standards for air pollutants
Despite lingering questions over just how the new benchmarks will be used, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission adopted health-based standards for five air pollutants…
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Competing requests delay landfill regulations for months
Colorado regulators crafting the first methane-emissions reduction mandates for landfills are caught in a crossfire between industry leaders calling their proposal too costly and environmentalists…
Aug. 29 Colorado Inside Out: Special session and nuclear energy
On the Aug. 29 episode of “Colorado Inside Out” on PBS 12, Ed Sealover, editor of The Sum & Substance and vice president of strategic…
Colorado regulators consider first rules to limit landfills’ methane emissions
Colorado regulators will spend the next two days coming up with the first regulations designed to reduce emissions from landfills in a hearing whose main…
Building owners face choice: Make upgrades to cut emissions or fight state law?
Owners of large commercial buildings have reached a crucial crossroads slightly more than four years before they must meet new emissions-reduction standards: Begin the costly…
Producer costs needed to run state recycling program coming into focus
Aiming to raise $215 million to $267 million for the first year of Colorado’s universal recycling initiative, the organization running the program is looking at…
Oil and gas producers prepare to meet new mandates on recycled water
Colorado oil and gas producers are working to meet another new set of regulations by year’s end — only this time, the rules are concerned…
Colorado preparing to approve new health-based standards on some air emissions
Business and environmental leaders are gearing up for a September regulatory hearing that will mark the next flash point over Colorado air-pollution regulation — the…
Could revamped tool help Colorado determine rules for disproportionately impacted communities?
When Colorado state leaders discuss disproportionately impacted communities and the regulatory protections that should be given them, they rely on a tool known as EnviroScreen…
New legislatively created working group could impact operations of energy, agriculture companies
A legislatively created working group will begin meeting in the coming months to determine the future of some 4 million acres in state lands that…