Tag: Earthjustice
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Environmentalists file lawsuit against Suncor refinery claiming government inaction on pollution
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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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Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport transitions to unleaded aviation fuel
The Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield is angling to be the first airport in the state to fully eliminate leaded aviation fuel by 2027 — three years ahead of a Federal Aviation Administration deadline. The third busiest airport in the state, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport operates with more than 400 aircraft and 50 businesses.…
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Environmental groups sue Colorado air pollution regulators for not going far enough
The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission is being sued for not creating a stringent enough rule for emissions monitoring in disproportionally impacted communities. Earthjustice, which is representing environmental groups GreenLatinos, 350 Colorado, and Earthworks, filed the suit Tuesday. The plaintiffs allege that the rule fails to ensure that residents of communities that have “long borne…
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Refinery owner Suncor fires back at critics over water pollution claims
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Suncor’s Commerce City oil refinery was accused in March of discharging “large amounts of toxic PFAS” chemicals into Sand Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River, according to Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization. The organization released a study by Westwater Hydrology of Wheat…
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Suncor’s Commerce City refinery responds to water pollution complaints
The Suncor refinery in Commerce City responded to charges that “toxic levels” of PFAS chemicals were found in Sand Creek, adjacent to and downstream of the refinery. “There is no doubt that Colorado has a big PFAS problem,” said Caitlin Miller, an attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental nonprofit organization. “Our study shows that Suncor is a significant…
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Colorado Interstate 70 project keeps driving forward despite opposition from neighborhood
The Central 70 Project, a $1.2 billion undertaking that has left the north Denver neighborhoods of Globeville/Elyria-Swansea in a state of constant noise and construction for four years, has been contentious from its beginning. In 2008, the Interstate 70 viaduct was declared structurally deficient and functionally obsolete; but it was nearly three decades earlier when…