Proposed state-law changes boost disability-discrimination lawsuits
A quartet of legislatively created committees has offered a wide range of suggestions to improve the lives of Coloradans with disabilities — including the revival…
Regulatory Issues
Both industry, environmentalists frustrated with final cumulative-impacts rules
Colorado regulators officially enacted new rules this week to limit the cumulative impacts of multiple emissions-producing projects on a single area — and, in doing…
Legislators favor lighter touch to regulating business audits contracted by cities
Given the options of taking an aggressive or conservative approach to combatting “trigger audits,” Colorado legislators appear to have chosen the latter. The Sales and…
Report on hospital facility fees could stir new health-care regulatory efforts
A legislatively mandated report on hospital-system facility fees that was released Tuesday appears likely to spark a new round of debate on whether the state…
Colorado regulators appear to reach consensus on cumulative-impacts regulations
After four weeks of testimony and debate, Colorado regulators seem to have aligned on new cumulative-impacts rules that will require more protections from oil and…
Legislators considering bills to reduce “trigger audits”
Multiple medium- to large-sized companies say that they’ve been targeted for audits over and over by groups of a dozen or more municipalities in recent…
Packaging producers face deadline to register for new recycling program
In just two weeks, any substantially sized company that produces packaging sold within Colorado — from plastic to glass to wood — must be registered…
Could an election-reform initiative really help the business community?
To the average business owner struggling to keep up with inflation and new regulations, electoral reform may not seem like an issue that should be…
State regulators on verge of passing new cumulative-impact requirements on oil-and-gas projects
Colorado regulators are debating an “enormous” set of regulations that will require consideration of the cumulative impacts of any new or expanded oil-and-gas project on…
Colorado offers proposed emissions-cutting rules for key energy sector
Colorado officials are advancing rules to cut carbon emissions in yet another sector — this time in the midstream sector of the oil and gas…