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…
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…
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…
As Colorado legislators sit down in the coming weeks to try to fit a large swath of spending bills into a small budget allocation that’s…
As Colorado aims to achieve 100% net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, leaders of key state agencies argue that they can’t meet that goal without employing…
A proposed ban on new oil-and-gas wells failed to make it out of its first legislative committee Thursday, dying after a nearly nine-hour hearing in…
A bill to offer more environmental protections to disproportionately impacted communities is advancing in the Colorado Legislature, but without a key provision that would have…
Legislators looking to ramp up both regulations against air-quality violators and the enforcement of those laws advanced two major pieces of legislation Wednesday, despite warnings…
The long-anticipated price tag for Colorado to establish a statewide recycling system is in — as much as $310 million to implement a recommended “medium”…
Colorado legislators began advancing a bill Tuesday that bans the use of “forever chemicals” in an increasing amount of consumer products — but also began…