Business leaders win key votes on two environmental bills
Colorado legislators pushed backed against environmental activists in two ways Thursday, rejecting a bill to require extensive emissions reporting by large corporations and advancing a…
Energy & Environment
For the first time, Colorado legislators push forward a bill to boost nuclear energy
After years of dismissing the idea of promoting nuclear-energy development in Colorado, some legislative Democrats are coming around on it — and late Thursday, they…
Colorado officials identify five air toxic contaminants for additional regulation
Colorado officials took the first steps Friday in adding new control measures around five priority toxic air contaminants produced by sources ranging from oil-and-gas drilling…
In State of State Address, Polis seeks regulatory reform and caution in potential Labor Peace Act changes
Gov. Jared Polis used his State of the State Address on Thursday to call out several major business priorities, including asking legislators to undertake regulatory…
Opening-day bills tackle unionization, wage theft, price gouging, Ozempic and more
Colorado legislative Democrats stormed out of the gate Wednesday by introducing two major pro-labor efforts as well as several cost-of-living bills that are likely to…
Colorado regulators seeking steep increases in permitting fees for air pollutants
Colorado regulators want to raise fees by as much as 67% on air-pollutant emissions and the permits that are required for them — a price…
2025 Colorado Legislative Preview: An enormous amount for business to watch
In terms of resets, Colorado’s November legislative election results were negligible compared to what happened nationally. Republicans flipped three districts in the 65-member state House…
Commission approves “extremely aggressive” emissions cuts for midstream sector
Colorado air-quality regulators on Friday approved the state’s first emissions-reduction rules for the midstream sector of the oil-and-gas industry — rules that officials acknowledged will…
Colorado regulators change final rules on carbon-storage projects in way that could boost sector
One week after they appeared to deal a serious blow to Colorado’s ability to attract carbon-storage projects, state regulators Monday reversed course, saying the state…
Business leaders deflated by preliminary state rules on carbon management
Colorado regulators gave preliminary approval Thursday to the state’s first comprehensive rules on carbon capture and sequestration — stringent rules that business leaders warn could…