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…
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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…
Polis signs several bills that businesses had fought
By inking new laws Thursday that make it easier for Coloradans with disabilities and with wage-theft claims to demand damages from businesses, Gov. Polis completed…
2025 legislative review: Business wins, a few losses and more battles to come
The 2025 legislative session was one where business leaders engaged early — rallying against the first bill to get a Senate committee hearing — and…
Health-care bills, data-center tax breaks die as they run out of time
Two controversial health-care bills that had been priorities of Gov. Jared Polis’ administration but also had garnered tremendous pushback because of their potential to raise…
Legislators fix bill to help commercial buildings meet emissions-cut mandates
Months of negotiations have resulted in what business leaders called a mutually beneficial agreement with state regulators on how to proceed with commercial-building decarbonization efforts…
Effort to “educate” consumers about impacts of gas products with warning labels is dead
Colorado convenience stores won’t have to attach stickers to gas pumps warning of the products’ environmental and public-health impacts after sponsors of a bill that…
Council proposes new emissions-cutting rules for warehouses, entertainment venues, airports
A governor-appointed air-quality planning board will ask a state commission later this year to impose new regulations that eventually could limit emissions from gas-powered-vehicle traffic…