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…
Regulatory Issues
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…
Oil and gas producers prepare to meet new mandates on recycled water
Colorado oil and gas producers are working to meet another new set of regulations by year’s end — only this time, the rules are concerned…
Colorado preparing to approve new health-based standards on some air emissions
Business and environmental leaders are gearing up for a September regulatory hearing that will mark the next flash point over Colorado air-pollution regulation — the…
Could revamped tool help Colorado determine rules for disproportionately impacted communities?
When Colorado state leaders discuss disproportionately impacted communities and the regulatory protections that should be given them, they rely on a tool known as EnviroScreen…
Polis offers some regulatory reform in final bill signings
Nestled among the final bills from the 2025 legislative session that Gov. Jared Polis signed into law over the past week were several regulatory reform…
Polis signs tip credit bill — with a warning for local governments
Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Tuesday allowing local governments with higher minimum wages to expand their tip credits — and warned that if they…
Colorado board approves energy-efficient building codes that favor electric heating over gas-powered appliances
Colorado officials approved building codes Friday for new residential and commercial structures that demand more energy efficiency and do so in specific ways that favor…
Board will consider sweeping — and potentially costly — homebuilding mandates
An Energy Code Board set up by a 2022 law will vote next week on recommendations that could require future homes to be built to…