Clearing the air: Environmental winners and losers during the 2022 Colorado legislative session.
, lawmakers aimed to help local governments transition to greener energy codes.
“I can't even count how many amendments [the bill] had, but those were a result of so many stakeholder groups. It ended up being a lot more collaborative of a process, and thus will get a much better result,” Brinker says. One of the big changes designed to help local governments: Rather than imposing a date by which the new codes must be adopted, upgrades will be added on the government's standard timetables.
The state dedicated several bills to further regulating substances that could harm people or the environment. Among them was the, which prohibits the sale or distribution of carpets or rugs, cookware, cosmetics, fabric treatments, food packaging, juvenile products, oil and gas products, textile furnishings or upholstered furniture that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals, starting in January 2024.
“It was the sort of prime target of the Republicans,” Curry says. “In a deal that was made at like 4:30 a.m....there was an agreement made to kill that bill in order to end the filibuster that was putting many bills at risk.” “In some cases, the benefits are hidden,” Brinker says. “Sometimes we don't notice these benefits until they're gone. Like the benefit of clean air. We really noticed how great that is when we had those fires and had such bad air quality. Similarly, we don't really notice the quality of construction of our houses until there's a problem with it.”
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