Gov. Polis stared down legislators that sought social-media regulation. Polis won.
During an April 14 news conference urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign a bill seeking to impose new child-safety protections on social-media companies, Chelsea Congdon…
Regulatory Issues
Following changes, regulatory-reform bill getting across-the-board support
Five days ago, opponents of a bill to boost oversight of two key Colorado regulatory departments called it unfair to state workers and accused backers…
After asking Legislature for heaping of help, restaurants receive only crumbs
Colorado restaurants’ two-part strategy to reduce cost pressures during a period of significant eatery closings fully collapsed this week after a Senate committee killed a…
Legislators fix bill to help commercial buildings meet emissions-cut mandates
Months of negotiations have resulted in what business leaders called a mutually beneficial agreement with state regulators on how to proceed with commercial-building decarbonization efforts…
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…
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…