Bill to upend emissions rulemakings dies quietly in Legislature
A bill that sought to unwind concessions granted to businesses at two key Colorado Air Quality Control Commission rulemakings last year is dead after it…
Energy & Environment
A water fight no more: Competing permitting bills mesh into consensus legislation
Colorado legislators sent to Gov. Jared Polis on Monday a bill to create a new dredge-and-fill permitting program that fused together parts of separate water…
Grand deal or “Faustian bargain”? Compromise oil-and-gas bills move forward.
Legislators began advancing two bills Thursday that emerged from a “grand deal” between oil-and-gas companies, environmentalists and state-government officials — even as some oil-and-gas firms…
EPA: No waiver coming on reformulated gas mandate
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected Gov. Jared Polis’ last-ditch request to waive the mandate for reformulated gas sales along the Northern Front Range…
Agreement axes air-quality bills, ballot measures for new drilling fee, other regulations
Oil and gas companies, environmental groups and Gov. Jared Polis announced an agreement Monday that will jettison the most industry-opposed portions of three air-quality bills…
Polis seeks EPA waiver for gas mandate that he says would hurt economy and environment
Gov. Jared Polis has submitted a last-ditch waiver request to try to prevent northern Front Range gas stations from having to sell reformulated gas this…
Recycling organization begins work of determining fees that consumer-goods packagers will pay
Producers of material from plastic bottles to burlap coffee bags that package goods sold within the state of Colorado have just over nine months to…
Legislators criticize state agencies as they look to upend recent environmental rulemakings
Three years after passing the Environmental Justice Act to target polluters throughout Colorado, environmentally focused legislative Democrats returned Thursday with an ideologically similar bill that…
Legislators must choose between water bills impacting construction, utility industries
Eleven months after the U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of waterways over which the federal government has Clean Water Act jurisdiction, Colorado legislators are…
Dems define “cumulative impacts” in carbon-capture bill, pausing agency rulemaking
Two Colorado House Democrats pushed a bill through a committee Thursday to streamline the permitting of carbon-capture operations — but not before tacking on an…