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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.
COVID-19

Guest Post: Pollution protections vitally important during and after coronavirus crisis...

Shaina Oliver -
At a time when America is under assault from the deadly new coronavirus, Trump’s EPA has told polluters that they will not face enforcement...
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.)
COVID-19

The EPA has paused enforcing air quality laws. Colorado regulators say...

John Herrick -
State health officials say they’re trying to stay the course on regulating air and water pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic even as the Environmental...
Suncor's oil refinery north of Elyria-Swansea on Jan. 11, 2020. At the end of December, the U.S. benchmark price for a barrel of oil was $62. By mid-March, as folks worldwide stopped flying and driving, it had dipped to around $20, before falling into negative territory, and then leveling off around $10 in April.
Environment/Energy

Suncor reports another unintentional chemical release The equipment failure comes after...

John Herrick -
At about 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday, an orange plume spewed from the stacks at the Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City due to an...
health impacts. Elyria-Swansea
Environment/Energy

In wake of Suncor settlement, lawmakers double down on toxic emissions...

John Herrick -
State air regulators last week reached a $9 million settlement with Suncor, the owner of the oil refinery in Commerce City, for violating the...
health impacts. Elyria-Swansea
2020 Legislative Session

TABOR has become an unlikely foil in the fight to make...

John Herrick -
Since 2010, the state has fined Suncor, the oil refinery in Commerce City, $3.7 million for violating the state’s air quality laws more than...
2020 Legislative Session

Colorado health officials want better monitoring and cleanup of toxic PFAS...

John Herrick -
In the summer of 2018, Lucy Molina, a 45-year-old mother of two who lives in Commerce City near the Suncor oil refinery, said a...
Environment/Energy

Jill Hunsaker Ryan, public health and environment department head, talks environmental...

John Herrick -
Jill Hunsaker Ryan started her career in public health more than two decades ago. She worked on and off for the Colorado Department of...
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