New manufacturing emissions limits take businesses’ concerns into account
After more than two days of strenuous debate, Colorado regulators late Friday approved a first-of-its-kind set of regulations to limit emissions from large manufacturers —…
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Colorado to consider restricting sales, usage of gas-powered lawn equipment
Colorado air-quality regulators will turn their attention next to gas-powered lawn and garden equipment. The question is whether they will so far as to ban…
Colorado to impose new emissions regulations on manufacturers
Colorado will take a major step in the next week toward cutting emissions from the state’s largest manufacturing facilities, but business leaders warn that the…
Ozone-air-quality committee begins discussing emissions-cutting ideas
An interim legislative committee began its investigation Friday into the range of factors contributing to ozone pollution, but much of the conversation and suggestions about…
Colorado adopts amended building performance standards
Colorado Air Quality Control Commission members on Thursday approved the state’s first building performance standards, setting requirements for large property owners to cut energy usage…
Colorado on verge of creating new energy-performance standards for large buildings
After enacting significant rules in recent years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy and transportation sectors, Colorado will take its first big stab…
Details in coming clean hydrogen discussion could impact industry’s future in Colorado
When the Public Utilities Commission begins later this summer to develop a regulatory framework for clean hydrogen projects, business and industry leaders will be watching…
Next up for oil and gas companies: Reduction of fresh water in their operations
Colorado oil and gas companies, already charged with cutting their pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions, soon will enter another new conservation discussion — this one…
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…
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…