Tag: Environmental Justice
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Environmental justice enforcement plan released by EPA, CDPHE
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An environmental justice enforcement collaboration plan between Colorado and the EPA was released Thursday. The plan explains how the agencies will collaborate through enforcement and compliance to reduce pollution in communities overburdened by environmental and public health impacts, according to a news release from the…
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Statewide recycling program opens applications for advisory board
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The Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling is now accepting applications for the Producer Responsibility Advisory Board. That board will help shape how the new law is implemented. Rep. Lisa Cutter, D-Littleton, sponsored the bill for this program, House Bill 1355 which passed on June 3. This bill is intended to increase the state’s recycling…
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Report: Colorado’s low-income, non-white communities disproportionately exposed to pollution
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new report from Mapping for Environmental Justice found that low-income communities and communities of color in Colorado are significantly more likely to be exposed to pollution. MEJ’s state map shows that Colorado’s communities of color breathe nearly twice as much diesel pollution as predominantly…