Is chemical recycling really recycling? Colorado to decide soon
As Colorado officials finalize long-awaited rules for a statewide recycling program, they are grappling with an issue that affects a small portion of packaging but…
Regulatory Issues
Sept. 22 Business Buzz: Toxic air contaminant health-based standards
On the first of two Sept. 22 episodes of the 9News Business Buzz, Ed Sealover, editor of The Sum & Substance and vice president of…
Colorado commission sets health-based standards for air pollutants
Despite lingering questions over just how the new benchmarks will be used, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission adopted health-based standards for five air pollutants…
Competing requests delay landfill regulations for months
Colorado regulators crafting the first methane-emissions reduction mandates for landfills are caught in a crossfire between industry leaders calling their proposal too costly and environmentalists…
Legislators mull incentives, rather than mandates, to cut highway emissions
Colorado legislators may consider creating a program that helps owners of the oldest, most-polluting commercial trucks to trade them in for new vehicles — a…
Colorado regulators consider first rules to limit landfills’ methane emissions
Colorado regulators will spend the next two days coming up with the first regulations designed to reduce emissions from landfills in a hearing whose main…
Does new law boost consumer protection or turn Colorado into “sippy-cup state”?
Any company selling Colorado consumers online goods and services via subscriptions or ongoing agreements must offer them an electronic way to cancel automatic-renewal contracts just…
Colorado employers must prepare for new wage-theft law
Colorado employers will need to work a little bit harder to ensure that they are not misclassifying employees as contractors and are not shorting anyone…
Building owners face choice: Make upgrades to cut emissions or fight state law?
Owners of large commercial buildings have reached a crucial crossroads slightly more than four years before they must meet new emissions-reduction standards: Begin the costly…
Producer costs needed to run state recycling program coming into focus
Aiming to raise $215 million to $267 million for the first year of Colorado’s universal recycling initiative, the organization running the program is looking at…