Senate committee to hear bill on “shaming” customers who buy fuel products
After failing to ramp up regulation of the fossil-fuel industry or ban the drilling of new oil and gas wells in 2024, environmental groups are…
Energy & Environment
Polis signs law to promote nuclear-energy development in Colorado
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Monday that redefines nuclear energy as clean energy under state law, opening the market significantly to potential power…
Bill to promote nuclear energy headed to Polis with bipartisan support
Gov. Jared Polis soon will have the opportunity to do something that, as recently as one year ago, would have seemed ludicrous — sign a…
Business coalition requests delay in pivotal rulemaking on toxic air contaminants
Business groups have asked Colorado regulators to postpone an April hearing regarding new toxic-air-contaminant rules, arguing that adopting reporting rules before knowing how the information…
Bill to aid building owners needing to decarbonize doesn’t help enough, sector leaders say
When Colorado regulators passed emissions-reduction regulations on large commercial buildings in 2023, property managers decried the infeasibility of complying with the rules. A group of…
Business leaders win key votes on two environmental bills
Colorado legislators pushed backed against environmental activists in two ways Thursday, rejecting a bill to require extensive emissions reporting by large corporations and advancing a…
For the first time, Colorado legislators push forward a bill to boost nuclear energy
After years of dismissing the idea of promoting nuclear-energy development in Colorado, some legislative Democrats are coming around on it — and late Thursday, they…
Colorado officials identify five air toxic contaminants for additional regulation
Colorado officials took the first steps Friday in adding new control measures around five priority toxic air contaminants produced by sources ranging from oil-and-gas drilling…
In State of State Address, Polis seeks regulatory reform and caution in potential Labor Peace Act changes
Gov. Jared Polis used his State of the State Address on Thursday to call out several major business priorities, including asking legislators to undertake regulatory…
Opening-day bills tackle unionization, wage theft, price gouging, Ozempic and more
Colorado legislative Democrats stormed out of the gate Wednesday by introducing two major pro-labor efforts as well as several cost-of-living bills that are likely to…