Polis seeks EPA waiver for gas mandate that he says would hurt economy and environment
Gov. Jared Polis has submitted a last-ditch waiver request to try to prevent northern Front Range gas stations from having to sell reformulated gas this…
Energy & Environment
Recycling organization begins work of determining fees that consumer-goods packagers will pay
Producers of material from plastic bottles to burlap coffee bags that package goods sold within the state of Colorado have just over nine months to…
Legislators criticize state agencies as they look to upend recent environmental rulemakings
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…
Legislators must choose between water bills impacting construction, utility industries
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…
Dems define “cumulative impacts” in carbon-capture bill, pausing agency rulemaking
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…
Large, contested fiscal notes could be obstacles for air-quality bills
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…
Committee considers whether carbon capture has future in Colorado
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…
Committee kills bill to prevent drilling of future oil-and-gas wells
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…
Legislators remove local-control provision from environmental-cleanup bill
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…
Senators advance seasonal oil-and-gas activity pause, industrial fine increases
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…