Tag: Air Pollution
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Colorado bans gas-powered lawn equipment. Here’s what you need to know.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What is the current ban? The state mandate that bans the use of gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment took effect June 1 of this year. It applies to state-owned equipment of 25 horsepower or less, and to federal and local governments, including special districts, using…
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Environmentalists file lawsuit against Suncor refinery claiming government inaction on pollution
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A group of environmental organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Suncor refinery in Commerce City under a provision of the federal Clean Air Act allowing citizens to seek a court ruling requiring a polluter to comply with the CAA if the EPA and state…
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50 cents more per gallon? EPA mandate for gas to hit Denver motorists this summer
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gasoline in the metro Denver area is about to get a lot more expensive come June 1 — as much as 51 cents to $1 more per gallon, depending on who is asked. And Gov. Jared Polis said that threatens Colorado’s fuel supply and might result…
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Suncor to pay $10.5 million for air quality violations at Commerce City refinery
Suncor Energy settled a lawsuit with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for $10.5 million in fines and mandated improvements at its Commerce City refinery for a series of air pollution emissions events from 2019 to 2021. The settlement is the largest in Colorado history for air pollution violations. In a news release,…
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Weld County oil drilling wastewater company agrees to clean up air pollution problems
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State air pollution authorities forged an agreement to reduce ozone-causing emissions from two oil-and-gas wastewater disposal sites. The settlement with Expedition Water Solutions includes more than $500,000 in penalties and requirements to install new pollution control and monitoring equipment at its Kersey and Platteville well…
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Environmental groups angered by new rule on industrial emissions.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An emissions reduction rule for large industries approved by state air pollution regulators has environmental groups castigating the rule for weakening pollution control and ignoring the Environmental Justice Act. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission made significant concessions to 18 industries including the Molson Coors…
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EPA sends Suncor air pollution permit back to the drawing board
A final air pollution permit issued to the Suncor refinery in Commerce City by state officials that was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency has been sent back to the drawing board by the EPA for a second time. In Feb. 2022, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sent a long-delayed air pollution…
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Round two of RTD’s Zero Fare for Better Air program to lower ozone in the summer kicks off
Later this month. the RTD’s Zero Fare for Better Air program is set to launch its second year of helping to lower harmful ozone in the Metro Denver North Front Range Non-attainment Region. Media and the public are invited to an event at Union Station starting at 10 a.m. June 22 on the commuter rail…
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Mountain basin air pollution linked to neurodegenerative diseases
In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn’t recognize their owners, and the animals’ sleep patterns had changed. At the time, the sprawling, mountain-ringed city of more than 15 million people was known as the most polluted in the world, with a thick, constant haze of fossil fuel…