Bipartisan bill to require audits of Colorado regulators gets labor, enviro pushback
Signs of overregulation are rampant for Colorado businesses, from the 459 days it takes to get an air-quality permit to the 43 major energy-related rulemakings…
Regulatory Issues
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…
Unusual business/trial-attorney effort seeks to expose secretive foreign funding of lawsuits
Businesses facing lawsuits on subjects ranging from intellectual-property claims to antitrust violations may be facing down a plaintiff who is being funded by a deep-pocketed…
Legislators consider law change that would require VW-backed electric truck to be sold by VW dealers
Colorado legislators are being asked to referee a dispute between startup electric vehicle brand Scout Motors and the state’s Volkswagen auto dealers — a dispute…
New law bars grocery stores from acquiring further full-alcohol-sales licenses
The era of grocery stores adding full alcohol sales to their premises appears to be over. Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed into law Senate…
“An industry on the edge of demise”: Childcare struggles with regulation
Colorado’s struggling childcare sector got a win Tuesday with the death of a bill it opposed. But providers say they continue to suffer from regulatory…
Disabilities-rights lawsuit bill now before Colorado Senate has undergone major changes
When a Colorado Senate committee considers a bill next week to expand the ability of people with disabilities to recover damages in lawsuits, it will…
Senate kills bill to make it easier to file some business-focused lawsuits
Having advanced for the first time as far as the floor of the Colorado Senate, a bill to make it easier to file pricey deceptive-trade-practices…
Bill to regulate work in “extreme temperatures” dies in House committee
Facing severe business backlash and bipartisan opposition, a pair of Colorado House Democrats on Thursday killed their bill to require a slew of new temperature-based…