Colorado’s air regulators have approved a new rule that will require the state’s 18 largest manufacturers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but the plan is receiving pointed criticism from environmental advocates who say loopholes will allow the dirtiest companies to keep on polluting the most impacted communities. The rule’s critics already were complaining about […]
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Fox 31: What’s the coolest thing made in Colorado? You can help choose
Voting started Monday for the 2023 Coolest Thing Made in Colorado people’s choice award contest. The contest is held by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce. It was first held in 2022. Coloradans can choose three products from a list of 10 finalists. The products range from military aircraft ejection seats to a gadget that keeps […]
Denver 7: What’s the ‘coolest thing made in Colorado’? The state wants you to choose from this list of 10
Voting opened Monday for the “Coolest Thing Made in Colorado” awards. The Colorado Chamber of Commerce is asking people across the state to weigh in on what they think was the best thing to come out of the manufacturing industry in 2023. “With such a dynamic set of finalists in this year’s program, competition is […]
Politico E&E News: ‘Worse than doing nothing’: Greens fume at Colo. climate plan
Colorado regulators this week will consider some of the first climate rules in the country specifically targeting the hard-to-decarbonize manufacturing sector. The new regulations would apply to Colorado’s 18 largest manufacturers, including Suncor Energy Inc., Front Range Energy and Yuma Ethanol LLC, as well as brewing giant Molson Coors and Leprino Foods Co., the world’s […]
Colorado Politics: Polis’ policy coddles polluters, ignores impacted communities
Should we assume an executive agency, the Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) and its oversight entity, the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC), is under the ultimate authority of the executive branch of government, or Gov. Jared Polis? If so, then the Air Pollution Control Division’s GEMM 2 scheme to trade in air pollution credits to […]
In the News: Colorado Chamber Press Roundup
Colorado Politics: Colorado’s mushrooming regulations force out companies Colorado companies tied up by bureaucratic red tape are warning they’re going to cut themselves free from the bonds of progressive regulations and head for the first open door. Read More… Fox: Colorado Survey of Business Leaders View Video… Gazette: PERSPECTIVE: Undercutting Colorado’s job creators While Colorado […]
CPR: Colorado is considering new limits on industrial emissions. Environmental justice groups want to scrap them and start over
A coalition of environmental justice groups released a statement Tuesday calling on state regulators to reject a proposed rule to limit planet-warming pollution from 18 of Colorado’s largest sources of industrial climate pollution. Those groups — including Conservation Colorado, GreenLatinos and Cultivando — were integral to lobbying for the 2021 Environmental Justice Act, which directed […]