Tag: Suncor
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Colorado Supreme Court green-lights lawsuit over climate change impacts to Boulder County
Justice Carlos Samour, writing in dissent, believed it would be ‘chaos’ to allow local governments to sue fossil fuel producers
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Colorado justices mull lawsuit over fossil fuel producers’ liability for alleged local climate change harms
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether to permit Boulder County and the city of Boulder to seek damages against two oil and gas producers for the harms they allegedly caused over multiple decades by concealing and misrepresenting the dangers of climate…
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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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Suncor to pay $10.5 million for air quality violations at Commerce City refinery
Suncor Energy settled a lawsuit with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for $10.5 million in fines and mandated improvements at its Commerce City refinery for a series of air pollution emissions events from 2019 to 2021. The settlement is the largest in Colorado history for air pollution violations. In a news release,…
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Petition for court review of EPA order on Suncor refinery pollution permit filed
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition Nov. 17 with the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s final administrative order regarding emissions from the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City. The petition asks for a review of EPA’s decision regarding petitions submitted by the Center in 2022…
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Environmental groups angered by new rule on industrial emissions.
An emissions reduction rule for large industries approved by state air pollution regulators has environmental groups castigating the rule for weakening pollution control and ignoring the Environmental Justice Act. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission made significant concessions to 18 industries including the Molson Coors brewery in Golden, beef producer JBS Swift and Leprino Foods…
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EPA sends Suncor air pollution permit back to the drawing board
A final air pollution permit issued to the Suncor refinery in Commerce City by state officials that was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency has been sent back to the drawing board by the EPA for a second time. In Feb. 2022, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sent a long-delayed air pollution…
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EPA report finds Suncor refinery having more air pollution incidents compared to other refineries
The Environmental Protection Agency released a report Friday on Suncor’s Commerce City refinery showing it has more air pollution incidents than 11 other refineries of similar size and output. In the report, the EPA said the Suncor refinery “may experience more air quality incidents because of inadequacies in preventative maintenance, testing and inspection of liquid…
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Suncor malfunction released excessive air pollutants, health agency reports
A malfunction at the Suncor Refinery in Commerce City resulted in “significant” air pollution Saturday, the state health agency announced, with elevated levels of air pollutants that can impact health expected to last throughout the day. The state health department’s Air Pollution Control Division found levels of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in excess of…