A Cryin’ Shame: Spilled Bud, Miller Beer Targeted to Clean Air (Corrected)

Dropping your beer on New Year’s Eve may have helped your hangover, but starting this month beer spills could be more than a headache for Colorado’s two biggest brewers, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV and MillerCoors LLC.

Colorado Air Quality Control Commission air pollution rules kick in Jan. 14, and target spilled beer—typically from container breakage and other production losses—that creates ozone pollution when ethyl alcohol evaporates.

The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins, and the MillerCoors brewhouse in Golden are the only facilities above the threshold of 100 tons per year of volatile organic compounds emitted, at ...