4300 Cherry Creek Drive South

Denver, CO 80246  

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment promotes healthy people in healthy places. 

Air Pollution Control Division

This division, along with the agency’s Climate Change Program, is responsible for:

• Tracking the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Developing regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Managing Colorado’s credit tracking and trading for recovered methane projects and GEMM sources.
• Gathering input from communities and diverse stakeholders to shape an equitable, inclusive, and effective response to climate change in Colorado.

Clean Fleet Enterprise

This enterprise works to incentivize and support the use of electric vehicles and other clean fleet technologies by owners and operators of motor vehicle fleets.

Air Quality Enterprise

This government-owned business is dedicated to providing funding for air quality research that is unbiased, science-based, and trustworthy. 

Environmental Justice Program

This program fulfills a mandate created by the state legislature to prioritize reducing environmental health disparities in disproportionately impacted communities. 

Work includes:

• Funding for environmental justice grants.
• Maintaining and overseeing an interactive environmental justice mapping tool called Colorado EnviroScreen.
• Ensuring state policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions prioritize improving the lives of people in disproportionately impacted communities.