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…
Energy & Environment
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…
Green energy law offers new business tax credits while cutting ad-valorem credits
Colorado’s twin pushes for greater adoption of renewable energy and faster reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions now feature a bevy of new incentives, though those come…
After changes, businesses and legislators laud bills that could affect utility rates
At the end of a legislative session uniquely focused on utility companies and their operations, legislators and the state’s two investor-owned utilities may have hit…
Despite push, bills regulating emerging energy sectors still have too many guardrails, industry leaders say
Colorado legislators passed a swath of bills at the end of the 2023 legislative session to set up regulatory frameworks for emerging energy sectors, but…
Business leaders breathing easier about air-quality permitting bill
An air-quality permitting reform bill originally criticized as a “backdoor ban on oil and gas” underwent a third major set of revisions during a rare…
Colorado commission on track to get ability to raise water-quality permitting fees
A bill to let the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission raise clean- and drinking-water fees without legislative approval is on its way to Gov. Jared…