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…
Energy & Environment
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…
Colorado seeks to take control of injection-well permitting away from EPA
Colorado regulators want to oversee now-federalized permitting for the growing number of underground injection control wells — an idea that appeals to some geothermal and…
Legislator revives bill to make companies list emissions totals on their websites
A Democratic lawmaker has revived his unsuccessful 2025 bill to require companies to list reportable emissions on their websites — a measure he says is…
Ban on plastic-pellets discharge up first on environmental-bill debates
The first major environmental bill to begin advancing in the 2026 legislative session seeks to prohibit companies making or using plastic pellets from discharging them…