Colorado regulators consider first rules to limit landfills’ methane emissions
Colorado regulators will spend the next two days coming up with the first regulations designed to reduce emissions from landfills in a hearing whose main…
Energy & Environment
Building owners face choice: Make upgrades to cut emissions or fight state law?
Owners of large commercial buildings have reached a crucial crossroads slightly more than four years before they must meet new emissions-reduction standards: Begin the costly…
Producer costs needed to run state recycling program coming into focus
Aiming to raise $215 million to $267 million for the first year of Colorado’s universal recycling initiative, the organization running the program is looking at…
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…
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…