Legislative session opens with calls to address affordability crisis
Leaders of all four of Colorado’s legislative caucuses called for new laws that will help to bring down the cost of living during Wednesday’s opening…
Regulatory Issues
Colorado regulators seeking steep increases in permitting fees for air pollutants
Colorado regulators want to raise fees by as much as 67% on air-pollutant emissions and the permits that are required for them — a price…
2025 Colorado Legislative Preview: An enormous amount for business to watch
In terms of resets, Colorado’s November legislative election results were negligible compared to what happened nationally. Republicans flipped three districts in the 65-member state House…
Commission approves “extremely aggressive” emissions cuts for midstream sector
Colorado air-quality regulators on Friday approved the state’s first emissions-reduction rules for the midstream sector of the oil-and-gas industry — rules that officials acknowledged will…
Colorado regulators change final rules on carbon-storage projects in way that could boost sector
One week after they appeared to deal a serious blow to Colorado’s ability to attract carbon-storage projects, state regulators Monday reversed course, saying the state…
Polis revokes slew of orders, raising question of whether regulatory reform will follow
Days after a study showed Colorado as one of the country’s most regulated states, Gov. Jared Polis rescinded 208 executive orders Thursday — a move…
Study finds Colorado regulations among highest in nation, costing jobs
Colorado’s sharp rise in new regulations over the past four years is costing the state tens of thousands of jobs while elevating costs for consumers,…
Business leaders deflated by preliminary state rules on carbon management
Colorado regulators gave preliminary approval Thursday to the state’s first comprehensive rules on carbon capture and sequestration — stringent rules that business leaders warn could…
Report: Key sectors cutting emissions more than required
As Colorado regulators prepare for another round of rulemaking to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, they have revealed that the…
Major Colorado commission will hold hearings under new procedural rules
In an effort to create more public participation in rulemaking and to improve transparency in the process, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission voted Friday…