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…
Regulatory Issues
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…
Colorado Privacy Act subjects companies that collect customer data to significant new regulations
Beginning on July 1, Colorado employers who collect and store significant amounts of personal data on customers must allow those individuals to review, correct and…
Details in coming clean hydrogen discussion could impact industry’s future in Colorado
When the Public Utilities Commission begins later this summer to develop a regulatory framework for clean hydrogen projects, business and industry leaders will be watching…
Polis signs four workplace regulations into law
Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday signed into law a bill that redefines harassment in Colorado — the conclusion of a five-day period in which he…
Deadline nears for Colorado employers to offer retirement-savings plans
The clock is ticking on Colorado employers who don’t now offer retirement-savings plans for their workers, as many must change their practice by February or…
Companies within disproportionately impacted communities to come under new regulations
Pollution-generating companies within Colorado communities that are poorer, more ethnically diverse and addled with environmental problems soon will have to undergo enhanced modeling and monitoring…