Below are upcoming public participation opportunities with the Air Pollution Control Division. These events may be in-person, virtual, or hybrid. The division holds regular events such as public listening sessions, small community conversations, tutorials, and more. The division uses these meetings to share updates, learn from community experiences, and incorporate feedback into our work protecting clean air for all Coloradans.
Upcoming public participation opportunities
October 2023
Greenhouse Gas Intensity Protocol Public Meeting
Please join us to learn more and share your thoughts about the greenhouse gas intensity verification rule.
- Virtual event: Monday, October 16, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
- Register to join the October 16 meeting virtually.
- Topics: Open public comment opportunity on the draft protocol; question and answer session; public comment session.
Colorado Greenhouse Gas Inventory Public Meetings
Please join us to learn more and share your thoughts about the upcoming statewide greenhouse gas inventory.
- Virtual event: Tuesday, October 17, 10 - 11:30 a.m.
- Register to join the October 17 meeting virtually.
- Topics: Staff will share the purpose of the report, data sources, and preliminary findings and take general questions and comments.
- Virtual event: Tuesday, October 24, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
- Register to join the October 24 meeting virtually.
- Topics: Staff will share the purpose of the report, data sources, and preliminary findings and take general questions and comments.
November 2023
Community meetings on Protections Against Air Toxics
The Division will begin a toxic air contaminants monitoring program by January 1, 2024. The division is seeking input and feedback to help inform the location of the final three of six monitoring sites.
- Virtual event: Tuesday, November 14, 6 - 8 p.m.
December 2023
Community meetings on Protections Against Air Toxics
The Division will begin a toxic air contaminants monitoring program by January 1, 2024. The division is seeking input and feedback to help inform the location of the final three of six monitoring sites.
- Virtual event: Saturday, December 9, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
January 2024
Greenhouse Gas Intensity Protocol Public Meeting
Please join us to learn more and share your thoughts about the greenhouse gas intensity verification rule.
- Virtual event: Wednesday, January 10, 1 - 2:30 p.m.
- Register to join the January 10 meeting virtually.
- Topics: Division presentation on the final intensity verification protocol; question and answer session; public comment session.
Other public participation options
For a calendar of upcoming community engagement opportunities across the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, visit the department’s public participation website.
If you have questions or need to contact the Air Pollution Control Division, visit the division’s contacts website.
For upcoming Air Quality Control Commission public participation opportunities, visit the AQCC’s website.
For upcoming Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission hearings and public participation opportunities, visit the ECMC’s website.
For upcoming Public Utilities Commission hearings and public participation opportunities, visit the PUC’s website.
- Building Performance Standard Rule
- Information and stakeholder engagement details about a rule that will be proposed in May 2023 to create building performance standards to help meet the goals of House Bill 21-1286.
- Colorado Clean Cars
- Stakeholder process to inform and learn about the Air Pollution Control Division’s work to provide more zero-emission vehicle options in Colorado and improve air quality.
- Disproportionately Impacted Communities Permitting Rule
- Information and stakeholder engagement details about a rule that will be proposed in May 2023, which will require additional permitting, modeling, and/or monitoring for sources of pollution that affect communities of color, low-income residents, and communities already being harmed by pollution.
- General Permits stakeholder process
- Stakeholder process to review and provide comments on a new study that will inform a facility-wide general permit for upstream oil and gas operations in Colorado.
- Greenhouse Gas Air Pollutant Emissions Notice Rulemaking
- Stakeholder process to review air pollutant emissions reporting of GHG emissions.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Efficiency Manufacturing Audit Program Rulemaking Process
- Stakeholder process to develop a rule to establish a GHG emission and energy audit program for specific GHG emitting manufacturing industries.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing
- Stakeholder process to learn about and share feedback on the proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing Phase 2 (GEMM 2) Rule for industrial sources
- Greenhouse Gas Fee Rule
- Share your input as the Air Pollution Control Division considers fees for greenhouse gases and other air pollutants.
- Greenhouse Gas Intensity Verification Rule Development
- Stakeholder process to support the development of the intensity verification rule for oil and gas upstream operations.
- Colorado Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- Stakeholder process to share information about Colorado's Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
- Interactive Map of Colorado Stationary Air Pollution Sources
- Tutorial on an interactive visual map designed to make air pollution records more transparent and accessible.
- Colorado Air Toxics Program
- Stakeholder process to seek input and feedback to help inform the location of ambient air monitoring sites.
- Stakeholder process to provide input on fenceline monitoring programs. (Four covered facilities: Suncor Refinery, Commerce City; Phillips 66 Pipeline Terminal, Commerce City; Sinclair Pipeline Terminal, Henderson; Goodrich Carbon Product, Pueblo).
- Recovered Methane Protocol Rulemaking
- Tentative November, 2022 rulemaking request. Technical Work Group Meetings are open to the public and written comments may be submitted using this form.
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation
- Stakeholder process to inform state GHG reduction rules and strategies addressing the transportation sector.
- Severe Ozone Planning
- Stakeholder process to share basic ozone information, identify planning processes and potential reduction strategies, and provide opportunities to share concerns and suggestions.
- Stationary Source Control Fund
- Stakeholder process to assess improvements in efficiency for fee-funded activities and billing and accounting practices
- Stationary Source Data Modernization
- Stakeholder process to help modernize the stationary source data system