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Photo of smoggy downtown Denver skyline via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, Technical Services Program, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

2020 Legislative Session

Colorado’s goal to rein in ozone misses federal deadline by two...

John Herrick - January 22, 2020

Colorado health officials have set a goal to reduce toxic ground-level ozone along the Front Range by 2023 — roughly two years beyond a...

Environment/Energy

EPA mulls further delays to rein in Front Range ozone as...

John Herrick - September 6, 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to order a crackdown on polluters in the northern Front Range who contribute to the region’s unhealthy levels...

Extraction Oil & Gas well pad site near Windsor, Colorado. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group)

Environment/Energy

Oil and gas emissions ‘not acceptable,’ Colorado’s top air quality regulator...

John Herrick - July 29, 2019

Colorado air quality regulators are ramping up efforts to slash planet-warming and ozone-forming emissions from oil and gas operations. On Monday, the state Air Pollution...

Patrick Murphy, Boulder County Public Health employee, uses a FLIR infrared camera to check for gas leaks at a operating well pad in eastern Boulder County. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)

Environment/Energy

Colorado will consider requiring drillers to track and report methane emissions...

John Herrick - July 9, 2019

Vehicles and power plants are by far the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in Colorado, contributing roughly 50% of all planet-warming emissions in our...