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…
Energy & Environment
Legislators fix bill to help commercial buildings meet emissions-cut mandates
Months of negotiations have resulted in what business leaders called a mutually beneficial agreement with state regulators on how to proceed with commercial-building decarbonization efforts…
Effort to “educate” consumers about impacts of gas products with warning labels is dead
Colorado convenience stores won’t have to attach stickers to gas pumps warning of the products’ environmental and public-health impacts after sponsors of a bill that…
Council proposes new emissions-cutting rules for warehouses, entertainment venues, airports
A governor-appointed air-quality planning board will ask a state commission later this year to impose new regulations that eventually could limit emissions from gas-powered-vehicle traffic…
Colorado regulators raise emissions fees significantly, create new reporting requirements
A Colorado regulatory panel agreed Friday to raise fees on industrial companies by as much as 67% and to implement a new system, beginning in…
Senate committee to hear bill on “shaming” customers who buy fuel products
After failing to ramp up regulation of the fossil-fuel industry or ban the drilling of new oil and gas wells in 2024, environmental groups are…
Polis signs law to promote nuclear-energy development in Colorado
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Monday that redefines nuclear energy as clean energy under state law, opening the market significantly to potential power…
Bill to promote nuclear energy headed to Polis with bipartisan support
Gov. Jared Polis soon will have the opportunity to do something that, as recently as one year ago, would have seemed ludicrous — sign a…
Business coalition requests delay in pivotal rulemaking on toxic air contaminants
Business groups have asked Colorado regulators to postpone an April hearing regarding new toxic-air-contaminant rules, arguing that adopting reporting rules before knowing how the information…
Bill to aid building owners needing to decarbonize doesn’t help enough, sector leaders say
When Colorado regulators passed emissions-reduction regulations on large commercial buildings in 2023, property managers decried the infeasibility of complying with the rules. A group of…