New manufacturing emissions limits take businesses’ concerns into account
After more than two days of strenuous debate, Colorado regulators late Friday approved a first-of-its-kind set of regulations to limit emissions from large manufacturers —…
Regulatory Issues
Colorado to consider restricting sales, usage of gas-powered lawn equipment
Colorado air-quality regulators will turn their attention next to gas-powered lawn and garden equipment. The question is whether they will so far as to ban…
Colorado regulators considering rules for Equal Pay law update
Colorado regulators are working through several issues as they seek to implement an update to the state’s Equal Pay for Equal Work law — issues…
Colorado to impose new emissions regulations on manufacturers
Colorado will take a major step in the next week toward cutting emissions from the state’s largest manufacturing facilities, but business leaders warn that the…
Chamber survey: Regulations have put economy on wrong track
Colorado’s economy has turned definitively onto the wrong track and is forcing businesses to consider expanding elsewhere — with growing state regulations cited as the…
Maturing Colorado Option reaches inflection point
As the Colorado Option insurance program moves into its second year, analysts parse numbers to evaluate its success. No, most plans won’t hit 10% premium-reduction…
Joint transportation committee won’t propose employee trip reduction bill
In both 2021 and 2022, public backlash quashed attempts by Colorado officials first to mandate that large employers reduce their workers’ single-occupancy-vehicle trips and then…
Colorado adopts amended building performance standards
Colorado Air Quality Control Commission members on Thursday approved the state’s first building performance standards, setting requirements for large property owners to cut energy usage…
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…
Colorado board picks first five drugs for affordability reviews
Two years into existence, Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board on Friday selected its first five drugs to undergo an affordability review — including one…