Tag: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Front Range counties celebrate air quality wins on Earth Day
The reduction is a downward trend for the county
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Louisville, Colorado claims to be first city in America with 100% green trash collection
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The city of Louisville will be the first in the nation to use a 100% electric fleet of trash and recycling collection vehicles after renewing a contract with Republic Services. But you likely won’t hear the new vehicles coming until they slam a neighbor’s waste…
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Denver City Council OKs Peña Boulevard expansion study
The Denver City Council on Monday narrowly approved a proposed Peña Boulevard expansion study in a 7-6 vote. The move allows the city and Denver International Airport to accept a $5 million grant — $1.5 million of which will be used to study transportation demand management — as part of an intergovernmental agreement between the…
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Denver residents still snapping up e-bike rebates
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver’s e-bike rebate program opened again Tuesday with city officials warning potential applicants that all vouchers would be claimed within 10 minutes. It took five. The program closed after accepting 870 applications, according to Chelsea Warren from the City and County of Denver. The rebate…
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Pugliese’s bill to end retail delivery fees killed by committee | FOCUS ON THE SPRINGS
Less than eight months after Colorado’s new retail delivery fees took effect, Rep. Rose Pugliese brought forward a bill seeking to eliminate them. In 2021, the state legislature passed Senate Bill 21-260, a $5.4 billion, 10-year plan to build out Colorado’s roads and bridges, create more electric vehicle charging stations, boost mass transit and mitigate…
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What does Denver’s new building code mean for building residents, owners?
Despite a major push by foes of fossil-fired energy, Denver’s city council ultimately decided against requiring residents to electrify their homes under the newly adopted 2022 building, fire and green code. Instead, the code changes — the first of three planned updates staggered through 2027 — will apply to commercial and multifamily buildings larger than 25,000 square feet. Under…
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‘Carbon-positive’ hotel to open in Denver
Urban Villages, a Denver-based real estate company, revealed updated plans to build what company officials call “the first carbon-positive hotel in the nation.” The company’s goal is to be a leader in sustainable real estate that brings in profit while being good for the planet, an effort that has been in the process for two…
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Denver calls on residents to compost fallen leaves
Instead of throwing away those dried leaves this fall, how about giving them a new life as fertilizer? That suggestion comes from the City of Denver as it rolls out the free annual LeafDrop program Oct. 10. Denverites can also bring pumpkins from the Halloween season as October turns into November. The only requirement is…
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Federal grants open for electric school buses, state grants on the way
Tens of millions of dollars in grants are available to Colorado school districts seeking to replace diesel school buses with electric-powered, zero-emission alternatives. Gov. Jared Polis, local leaders and representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency gathered at an Aurora elementary school on Wednesday to promote the electric school bus grants, urging school districts to take…
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Polis vetoes bill requiring commercial, multifamily buildings to have electric car charging stations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis added another veto to his 2022 list, turning down a bill that would have required certain commercial buildings and multifamily residences to include electric vehicle charging stations, depending on the building’s size. House Bill 1218 would have applied to new high-occupancy buildings, as…