Polis’ signing statement puts guardrails on pollution bill
Gov. Jared Polis late Tuesday signed a significantly pared-down bill seeking to reform air-quality permitting in the state, but not before giving guardrails to state…
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Companies within disproportionately impacted communities to come under new regulations
Pollution-generating companies within Colorado communities that are poorer, more ethnically diverse and addled with environmental problems soon will have to undergo enhanced modeling and monitoring…
Green energy law offers new business tax credits while cutting ad-valorem credits
Colorado’s twin pushes for greater adoption of renewable energy and faster reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions now feature a bevy of new incentives, though those come…
After changes, businesses and legislators laud bills that could affect utility rates
At the end of a legislative session uniquely focused on utility companies and their operations, legislators and the state’s two investor-owned utilities may have hit…
Despite push, bills regulating emerging energy sectors still have too many guardrails, industry leaders say
Colorado legislators passed a swath of bills at the end of the 2023 legislative session to set up regulatory frameworks for emerging energy sectors, but…
Business leaders breathing easier about air-quality permitting bill
An air-quality permitting reform bill originally criticized as a “backdoor ban on oil and gas” underwent a third major set of revisions during a rare…
Colorado commission on track to get ability to raise water-quality permitting fees
A bill to let the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission raise clean- and drinking-water fees without legislative approval is on its way to Gov. Jared…
Could Colorado bills stifle the new energy sources they seek to promote?
Colorado stands poised to set up regulatory frameworks for alternative energy sources that, if developed correctly, could net the state “billions of dollars of wages…
Air-pollution bill pared back a second time, but major opposition remains
A bill aimed at cutting air pollution, pared down once already to make it through a key committee, went through a second round of significant…
Bill to limit utility rates undergoes changes as it passes Colorado Senate
Colorado senators on Wednesday approved a bill to increase regulation around utility spending that received a handful of changes that power providers called helpful but…