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Three ways ADUs Go Easy on the Environment
Homeowners thinking about adding freestanding ADUs (accessory dwelling units, a.k.a. in-law apartments, granny flats, or cottages) tend to focus on creating much-needed space without knocking down walls in the houses they’re living in, the addition of rental income, and other practical considerations. The political can also co[...]
Electrification: is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
Amidst a 40-year high in inflation, a housing affordability crisis, and volatile gas prices, Colorado lawmakers are doubling down on their aggressive environmental policies. In support of HB19-1261, which included greenhouse gas emission reduction targets 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050 from 2005 baseline levels, last [...]
Getting to Net-Zero: How Businesses Can Drive Actionable Change
According to the recent UN Climate Change Report, recent weather events have reached a scale unseen across centuries to possibly thousands of years. The report also found that limiting human impact on global warming requires reaching at least net-zero CO2 emissions, coupled with significant reductions in other greenhouse gas e[...]
How to prepare for upcoming regulations on air toxics
Colorado manufacturing and energy businesses in nearly every industry are required to maintain compliance with various public health and safety regulations. In June, the Colorado General Assembly added another law to select facilities’ plates: HB 1189, Regulate Air Toxics.
Transformation underway for former military site
The impacts of the federal government’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commissions in the late 1980s and early 1990s have reverberated in Colorado for decades. The redevelopment plan of PuebloPlex is focused on creating a hub for manufacturing, distribution and railroad-related industries.
Should Colorado adopt California’s energy policies?
Natural gas is currently used by both residential and commercial building owners for a variety of purposes, with water heating, space heating, and cooking making up the primary preferred applications. Over the last year, environmental groups have been targeting the natural gas industry and its consumers through local bans on new[...]
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How environmentalism and the oil and gas industry can coexist
Land reclamation and restoration is the process of reclaiming and restoring the land in and around an oil and gas site, pipeline, or mining location after extraction is complete. A Reclamation Plan is being required by more and more state and federal agencies as part of a surface use plan of operation, including in Colorado wher[...]
Solar co-ops on the rise in Denver
Going solar is a great way to get affordable, reliable electricity for decades. Right now is a particularly good time to go solar, as COVID-19 relief legislation recently passed by Congress extends the Investment Tax Credit for solar, so business owners can recoup 26 percent of what they spend on solar systems installed this yea[...]
How to meet energy efficiency requirements for your building
With energy efficiency requirements escalating along the Front Range, building owners and managers are wisely turning their attention to how well their buildings are performing in terms of meeting important sustainability and energy-conserving goals.
Carbon fiber stokes hope in dwindling coal industry
Carbon fiber, strong and light, has been around since the 1970s. Already carbon fiber is used in high-end cars and very substantially in the Boeing 847, but it is expensive and made from petroleum. Making it from coal could bring the cost down – but there is that engineering to be done.
Support for ‘greening your business’ available across Colorado
In summer 2019, the state launched a free online platform called Green Business Tracker co.greenbiztracker.org that can be utilized by local programs. Derek Boer, Colorado Green Business Program coordinator, says interest in starting new local programs has grown in the past year.
Colorado’s oil industry faces rocky road to recovery
This year has brought challenges aplenty to the Colorado oil industry, which accounts for almost 4% of U.S. total crude oil production and also holds about 5% of the nation's economically recoverable crude oil prices.
