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Colorado environmental officials to launch first-ever climate unit under polis

Last month, Gov. Jared Polis signed a slew of environmental bills into law. Now, state health and environment officials say they’ll create the first-ever climate unit...

Legislative News – June 2019

The legislature adjourned and left town while the Governor continued to sign bills in order to meet the June 2 deadline (30 days following sine die),...

Polis signs suite of climate, energy bills

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed several bills addressing climate and energy in the state as he unveiled what he's calling a roadmap for...

Make smart changes to the General Mining Law

Clamp a royalty on minerals and metals mined on federal lands in the United States? Congress is considering doing so as part of an...

Winding down with a vengeance

Post Script: The article below was written four days before the final gavel fell on the legislative session. In those four days, bills were...

Did Colorado Legislature deepen rural-urban divide?

Southwest Colorado lawmakers score key victories Southwest Colorado lawmakers were instrumental in passing groundbreaking bills this legislative session that guarantee free early childhood education; lay...

The Capitol clock is ticking as Colorado dems worry about the...

With only five days left in the legislative session, state lawmakers still have more than 200 bills left on the calendar, leading many to...

Extremists Take on Colorado: Progressives’ overreach in Legislature, passing laws early,...

Never in contemporary Colorado politics has one party wielded so much power and control with such overreaching, unrestrained revolutionary zeal. Democrats won big in...

Clean air, climate change expert selected for state’s top environmental health...

John Putnam, chair and longtime member of the Regional Air Quality Council, will assume the top environmental health role in Colorado, starting May 6....

EVRAZ pushes back against climate bill

HB 1261 calls for 90 percent emission cuts by 2050, but doesn’t say how As majority Democrats in the Legislature are pushing a climate-change...