Press Release

DENVER, July 12, 2022 – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment wants feedback from community members on recommendations that the Environmental Justice Action Task Force will send to the legislature

STATEWIDE (July 8, 2022) —  The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment continues to use its extremely limited supply of vaccines from the federal government to host additional monkeypox vaccine clinics for people currently at higher risk of exposure.

Data from monitoring tools leads to swift protective action for Weld County community

REMOTE (July 6): The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has initiated an enforcement action against a Weld County facility. This comes after the state’s advanced air monitoring tools showed a pattern of rising emission levels at Cub Creek Energy’s Knight Pad location.

More than 250 doses administered this week; 300 to be administered next week

STATEWIDE (July 1, 2022) — To prevent the spread of monkeypox in Colorado, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has been using its extremely limited supply of federal vaccines, administering about 250 vaccinations to Coloradans

DENVER, June 29, 2022 – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and a team from Colorado State University today launched

DENVER, June 27, 2022 – In honor of National HIV Testing Day, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment encourages Coloradans to use the array of free testing services available to know their status and get linked to care and treatment.

CDPHE is committed to testing for the chemicals and mitigating exposure

REMOTE, June 15, 2022: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment supports  the Environmental Protection Agency's changes to the health advisories for the lifetime risk of PFAS in drinking water.

Responses show youth find accessing drugs and alcohol is harder and are consuming less  

DENVER (June 15, 2022) — Today, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released the latest statewide and regional results from the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, the state’s only comprehensive survey on the health and well-being of young people. More than 100,000 youth responded to the voluntary survey in the fall of 2021, and the results provide a snapshot of what young people were experiencing at that point in the COVID-19 pandemic.