air pollution control division
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Electric semi-tractor trucks on the menu at Air Quality Control Commission
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Colorado government officials started the process this week to require semi-tractor truck manufacturers and dealers to start pushing low-emission diesel trucks to Colorado customers. The rules would apply to all large trucks, like garbage or delivery vehicles. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission heard a presentation Tuesday from a Colorado Air Pollution Control Division representative about…
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Environmental groups sues Colorado over permit to burn petroleum fumes
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A state permit for a tanker truck repair center to burn off vapors from tanks they work on is being challenged in court by environmental activists. The Center for Biological Diversity and North Range Concerned Citizens filed the suit in Adams County District Court in Brighton Friday claiming allowing Polar Service Center to flare vapors…
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Environmental groups file motion to intervene in lawsuit against state over air pollution monitoring
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Community and environmental groups in the area around the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Suncor against the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Air Pollution Control Division. GreenLatinos, the Elyria-Swansea Neighborhood Association, Healthy Air and Water Colorado, Womxn from the Mountain, Conservation Colorado…
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Pollution-producing oil storage tank site shut down by state regulators
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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 health. Rural green transit projects win $51 million in federal…
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Colorado passes sweeping new regulations for oil, gas development
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The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission this month passed sweeping regulations that officials say will cost oil and gas producers tens of millions of dollars per year in order to comply with the state’s emissions goals. The state Air Pollution Control Division wants the oil and gas industry to reduce its emissions by 36% by…
