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Colorado air pollution regulators offer neighborhood groups free lawyers to...
Did you hear the one about the state government offering the public free lawyers to harass … the state? It’s no joke. In one of the first tangible impacts of environmental justice policies and rules...
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Colorado’s biggest buildings clash with air regulators over coming greenhouse...
Dennis Supple has done the math on everything demanded by Colorado regulators writing greenhouse gas efficiency rules for big buildings, and he’s certain his LoDo office would be lost in the equation....
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Big buildings in Colorado will now be on an energy and pollution diet
Colorado’s largest buildings will have to follow a carbon consumption diet plan to cut state greenhouse gas emissions, with the Air Quality Control Commission passing the controversial regulations...
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Colorado’s next greenhouse gas cuts target big smokestacks. Will it be enough?
A series of Colorado’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting sectors have come under the regulatory knife for cuts in recent years: oil and gas producers, gasoline vehicles, large buildings, cement plants...
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Cemex fined $357K for Boulder County air pollution violations, faces more probes
State air pollution inspectors have fined Cemex’s Boulder County cement factory $357,000 for multiple violations in 2020 and 2021, and are now probing more possible infractions found in a 2022...
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Proposal to ban gas lawn mower sales in the Denver area is severely cut back
A proposed ban on the sale of new gas-powered lawn equipment in the Denver metro area may be off the table after state health department staff recommended an alternate proposal that merely bars state...
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Colorado air commission approves smokestack rules opponents call “unjust” and...
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission late Friday approved new limits on smokestack pollution from 18 large corporations, a vote immediately denounced by 44 local governments and environmental...
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Colorado pitches even more “intensity” caps on oil and gas to help fight ozone
Colorado air pollution regulators want to meet Gov. Jared Polis’ demands for a 30% cut in ozone precursors by limiting oil and gas companies’ emissions of nitrogen oxides to a per-barrel limit called...
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Colorado hits Suncor with landmark $10.5 million settlement and tougher...
Colorado issued a $10.5 million penalty on the Suncor refinery in Commerce City over three years of air pollution violations, calling it the largest-ever action against a single facility, and also...
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EPA rejects Colorado permits for Weld County oil complex, citing problems in...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected four Colorado-issued air pollution permits at Weld County oil and gas processing sites, saying the state must rewrite the permits to ensure...
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Colorado bill would add environmental justice and science seats on air...
Colorado Democrats and environmental groups are floating a bill to add two stronger anti-pollution advocacy seats to the Air Quality Control Commission, close loopholes they call “pay to pollute,” and...
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Colorado fines Cemex another $1.3 million for air pollution violations as...
Colorado air pollution control officials are fining the Cemex cement plant near Lyons another $1.3 million for fugitive dust and emissions in the growing area of Boulder County, on top of earlier...
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Colorado environmental groups threaten to sue EPA for failing to crack down...
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division has missed its EPA deadline to rewrite permits for a Weld County oil and gas complex, and an environmental group says it will sue the federal agency for...
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Suncor gets new permit, new orders on air pollution
Colorado air quality regulators Thursday issued a renewed operating permit for two of Suncor’s three refining plants, touting a series of new orders for training, control equipment and real-time...
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Researchers are surveilling land, air and space to hunt down one Colorado...
Colorado’s battle with toxic ozone and damaging greenhouse gases will send new waves of scouts on the ground, in the air and up in space over the next two weeks, drawing on top U.S. scientists to...
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Suncor again accused of violating multiple pollution laws despite record...
The EPA and state regulators on Monday hit Suncor with another round of pollution violation notices for the past two years, despite a $10.5 million settlement for similar 2021 transgressions that...
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EPA lets Colorado off the hook again in air pollution open records,...
The Environmental Protection Agency is letting Colorado air pollution officials off the hook for making records available to members of the public who might want to help police corporate rule...
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Gasoline company suddenly withdraws expansion plan for tanks across from...
A gasoline distributor late Thursday canceled its unpopular proposal for a major tank farm expansion across from a Commerce City elementary school in a neighborhood heavily impacted by air pollution,...
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Colorado violated EPA ozone limits 40 times in summer of 2024
The northern Front Range counties violated EPA ozone standards on 40 days of the 2024 summer air pollution season, Colorado officials said Monday, and their new action recommendations call for more...
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Commerce City sustainability manager and supporters say she was fired for...
Former Commerce City sustainability manager Rosemarie Russo and her supporters say she was fired by city leaders after community protest notes she forwarded to the Suncor refinery’s Canadian...
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