Colorado regulators offer proposal for manufacturers’ credit-trading program
Colorado’s largest manufacturing facilities would be allowed to trade carbon credits next year not just with each other but also with energy-intensive cement and steel…
Energy & Environment
New Colorado PFAS law will affect range of product makers come 2026
Environmental advocates this week celebrated a new law that got overshadowed by debate on air-quality regulations this past legislative session — a measure expanding the…
Oil and gas got a major gift from the 2024 legislative session — stability
As oil-and-gas industry leaders listened to a news conference on Feb. 22 introducing three far-reaching air-quality bills, things looked dim. While backers — some in…
Commission sets timeline for review of key permitting documents
Colorado air-quality regulators and oil-and-gas leaders agreed on a timeline to keep the growing number of environmental-justice summary reviews on track, though the new rules…
Businesses expected the worst in 2024. They got “the most successful session in years.”
At the start of the 2024 legislative session, Colorado business leaders cringed at the thought of frustrated progressives not just bringing back bills that were…
Bill to upend emissions rulemakings dies quietly in Legislature
A bill that sought to unwind concessions granted to businesses at two key Colorado Air Quality Control Commission rulemakings last year is dead after it…
A water fight no more: Competing permitting bills mesh into consensus legislation
Colorado legislators sent to Gov. Jared Polis on Monday a bill to create a new dredge-and-fill permitting program that fused together parts of separate water…
Grand deal or “Faustian bargain”? Compromise oil-and-gas bills move forward.
Legislators began advancing two bills Thursday that emerged from a “grand deal” between oil-and-gas companies, environmentalists and state-government officials — even as some oil-and-gas firms…
EPA: No waiver coming on reformulated gas mandate
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected Gov. Jared Polis’ last-ditch request to waive the mandate for reformulated gas sales along the Northern Front Range…
Agreement axes air-quality bills, ballot measures for new drilling fee, other regulations
Oil and gas companies, environmental groups and Gov. Jared Polis announced an agreement Monday that will jettison the most industry-opposed portions of three air-quality bills…