Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Colorado's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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SB 21-260: Sustainability Of The Transportation System

Creates new sources of dedicated funding and new state enterprises to enable the planning, funding, development, construction, maintenance, supervision and regulation of a sustainable transportation system by preserving, improving and expanding existing transportation infrastructure, developing the modern infrastructure needed to support the widespread adoption of electric motor vehicles, and mitigating adverse environmental and health impacts of transportation system use.

Section 11 of Colorado Senate Bill 21-260 (Sustainability of the Transportation System) creates a Clean Fleet Enterprise within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) for the business purpose of incentivizing and supporting the use of electric motor vehicles and other clean fleet technologies by owners and operators of motor vehicle fleets.

The Clean Fleet Enterprise is authorized to impose a clean fleet retail delivery fee to be paid by the purchaser of tangible personal property delivered to the purchaser by motor vehicle and a clean fleet per ride fee to be paid by a transportation network company (TNC) on each ride offered and accepted by the TNC to fund the clean fleet enterprise's business purpose.

Clean Fleet Enterprise

The Colorado Energy Office supports initiatives to ensure access to electric vehicle charging stations in Colorado. CEO developed the Direct Current Fast-Charging (DCFC) Plazas program in partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to increase access to high-speed charging in communities and along highway corridors throughout the state.

The DCFC Plazas program is funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program and the Community Access Enterprise (CAE).

Direct Current Fast-Charging Plazas Grant Program

EV Home Charge supports the adoption of electric vehicles by helping fund electric panel and wiring upgrades for electric vehicle (EV) charging at single-family homes, duplexes, and townhomes. Access to at-home charging is a barrier to EV adoption in Colorado, especially in older homes that may have insufficient panel space or require extensive home wiring to support EV charging. This program addresses this barrier by helping reduce the cost of such upgrades. Colorado electric co-ops and municipal utilities are eligible to apply for EV Home Charge funding to offer rebates to their customers for both panel upgrades and home wiring to support EV charging.

EV Home Charge

This enterprise is created within the Colorado Department of Transportation to support public transit electrification planning efforts, facility upgrades, fleet motor vehicle replacement, as well as construction and development of electric motor vehicle charging and fueling infrastructure. The bill allows the enterprise to impose a clean transit retail delivery fee to fund its operations, and to issue grants, loans or rebates to support electrification of public transit.

Clean Transit Enterprise

Funded through the Community Access Enterprise, the Vehicle Exchange Colorado (VXC) program helps income-qualified Coloradans recycle and replace their old or high-emitting vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). The VXC rebate will partially cover the upfront cost of the EV at the time of purchase or lease from an authorized automobile dealer. 

Eligible Colorado residents can receive the following rebate amounts for a qualified electric vehicle purchase or lease (note: a lease term must be a minimum of two years).
- New electric vehicle (BEV or PHEV): $6,000
- Used electric vehicle (BEV or PHEV): $4,000

Vehicle Exchange Colorado (VXC) Program

In June 2021, Governor Polis signed SB21-260 which creates new sources of dedicated transportation funding and new state enterprises to enable a sustainable transportation system. The law will help modernize the infrastructure needed to support the widespread adoption of electric motor vehicles and mitigate adverse environmental and health impacts of transportation system use.

SB21-260 creates three new transportation electrification enterprises: the Clean Transit Enterprise housed in the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), the Clean Fleet Enterprise housed in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), and the Community Access Enterprise housed in the Colorado Energy Office (CEO). 

The Community Access Enterprise supports the widespread adoption of electric motor vehicles, equitably invests in transportation infrastructure, and incentivizes the acquisition and use of electric motor vehicles and electric alternatives to motor vehicles. Over the first decade, the Community Access Enterprise is expected to receive approximately $310 million to support electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure and low and moderate income adoption of EVs and electric bicycles.

The Community Access Enterprise Board includes four Governor-appointed members and executive directors or their designees from CDOT, CDPHE and CEO. Appointed board members will serve terms of three or four years.

Community Access Enterprise

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Executive Order D 2025 005: Regarding Strategic Growth through Compliance with State Laws

Governor Polis signed an Executive Order to help increase Colorado’s housing supply, reduce housing costs, and increase energy efficiency, by giving further guidance to state agencies on how to best support local governments who are taking needed action to deliver more housing and help ensure statewide compliance with strategic growth laws passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Polis.

The Executive Order gives the Department of Local Affairs, the Department of Transportation, the Colorado Energy Office, and the Office of Economic Development and International Trade guidance to compile a list of funding opportunities administered by these state agencies for the purpose of establishing priority for communities in compliance with state strategic growth laws.

The Department of Local Affairs is also directed to create and update quarterly a list of all Strategic Growth Compliant, Strategic Growth Compliance-in-Progress, and Strategic Growth Non-Compliant local governments by October 6, 2025.

Executive Order D 2025 005 directs the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) to summarize the framework, criteria, and benchmarks established in HB24-1007, HB24-1152, HB24-1304, HB24-1313, SB24-174, HB25-1273, and SB25-002 for identifying certified Strategic Growth Compliant Local Governments for the purpose of establishing priority for state Funding Opportunities.

The purpose of this Compliance Framework and Guidelines document is to ensure that Local Governments have a clear understanding of the statutory requirements that DOLA will be evaluating, and the process that DOLA will use to designate a Local Government as Strategic Growth Compliant, Strategic Growth Compliance-in-Progress, or Strategic Growth Non-Compliant by October 6, 2025, in accordance with the Executive Order. After October 6, DOLA will update the list of Local Governments and their compliance designation quarterly to reflect new information that DOLA receives.

Compliance Framework and Guidelines Executive Order D 2025 005

Executive Order D 2025 011: Amending and Supplementing Executive Order D 2025 005 Regarding Strategic Growth through Compliance with State Laws

Governor Polis took Executive action to update and supplement previous executive action to build more housing now. In May, Governor Polis took initial executive action to increase housing supply and break down barriers to more housing people can afford. Today, Governor Polis took action to update and supplement this effort, including releasing the list of impacted grants and directing state agencies to prioritize future grant funding, where there is discretion, for communities that are leading on the effort to create more housing that Coloradans can afford in compliance with state law. 

HB25-1182: Risk Model Use in Property Insurance Policies

The act requires a property insurer that uses a wildfire risk model, a catastrophe model, or a scoring method to assign risk to:

- For the purposes of underwriting homeowners and other property insurance policies, adhere to specific requirements to share information with the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) and the public, include specific activities in the models, and provide notices to policyholders;
- Submit available data concerning the models and scoring method as required by rule of the commissioner to the division of insurance as part of the insurer's rate filings; and
- Ensure that specific factors are either incorporated in the wildfire risk model, catastrophe model, or combination of models or are otherwise demonstrably included in the insurer's underwriting and pricing.