Tag: Ozone
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RTD’s two-month Zero Fare for Better Air program ends Thursday
The Regional Transportation District’s “Zero Fare for Better Air” free transit ozone reduction initiative will end as of midnight Thursday . The state-funded program — which expanded by one month this year — provided no-cost access to all RTD’s services during the months of July and August. The collaborative, statewide initiative was funded through a…
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Environmental groups petition EPA to reconsider Colorado’s ozone management plan
Environmental organizations 350 Colorado and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Colorado’s plan to reduce ozone pollution along the northern Front Range. In a news release, the organizations claim the Colorado plan doesn’t go far enough because “Colorado’s plan did not adequately rein in pollution…
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RTD’s Zero Fare for Better Air program is set to launch its second year
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 Thursday. Media and the public are invited to the event at Union Station starting at 10 a.m. Thursday at RTD Union Station’s commuter rail platform, near…
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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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Ozone control bill headed for Polis’ signature
A heavily amended bill now awaiting Gov. Jared Polis’ signature intended to cut down on ozone pollution makes major changes critics said would result in far-reaching repercussions. They allege it would handicap not just the oil and gas industry, but also other companies in Colorado — and do little to reduce summertime ozone. The bill’s…
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Colorado’s emissions bill abandons trip reduction plan, expands ozone pollution regulations
A modified version of a sweeping emissions regulation proposal would let the state deny or revoke any construction permit over modifications that increases ozone pollution by any amount. The bill’s sponsors argue the legislation is necessary because Coloradans, particularly people of color and residents of low-income communities, have long suffered from high levels of ozone pollution,…
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Industry critics: Proposed legislation threatens to limit oil & gas industry in Colorado
A new bill just introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives threatens to “functionally prohibit new permitting for most industrial processes in the state,” the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the American Petroleum Institute Colorado asserted on Friday. House Bill 23-1294, introduced by Rep. Jennifer Bacon and Jenny Wilford and co-sponsored by Sen. Faith…
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Cut oil, gas NOx emissions by 50% by 2030, Jared Polis tells Colorado agencies
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday outlined an ambitious goal to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from Colorado’s oil and gas industry by half by 2030. An industry leader called the plan challenging and hinted that oil and gas companies prefer to deploy technological innovations, rather than regulations, to curb emissions. In a letter, Polis directed state…
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Pollution-producing oil storage tank site shut down by state regulators
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An oil storage tank installation in Larimer County was ordered shut down Thursday by state air pollution regulators after what it says are repeated failures to control leakage of noxious vapors from the site that residential neighbors say are both annoying and harmful to their…
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Polis reverses 2019 approach, fights looming expensive gasoline mandate on metro Denver
In a reversal of his approach to federal ozone determinations three years ago, Gov. Jared Polis is poised to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to not rush into imposing a more expensive blend of gasoline to help reduce ozone, calling it “problematic” and a frustrating “decades-old, one-size-fits-all” prescription to improving air quality. “The Administration has…