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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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RSV cases, hospitalizations higher than usual across Colorado
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Hospitalizations and outbreaks are on the rise in Colorado for one respiratory virus. The state’s lead health agency is encouraging everybody, especially schools and child care centers, to do what they can to reduce the spread. Symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, often resemble a cold – runny or stuffy nose, sneezing and coughing – but…
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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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Commerce City’s Suncor refinery faces new pollution regulations
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The Suncor refinery in Commerce City is facing new pollution control standards from the state as the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division moves forward on updating long-expired air pollution permits that Suncor applied to renew in 2010 and 2016. Under Title V of the 1990 Clean Air Act, state and federal regulators are required to…
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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
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Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years. He loved his wife of 48 years, Nita, and adored…
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Legislative panel rejects request for audit of state health agency’s COVID-19 testing contracts
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An audit request from Sen. Rob Woodward, R-Loveland, for two contracts between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and two labs handling COVID-19 testing was turned down on a 4-4 tie by the Legislative Audit Committee. The committee is half Democrat, half Republican, hence the potential for a tie vote. The panel killed the…
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Boulder County announces omicron case; patient has recent travel to South Africa
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Boulder County identified its first case of the omicron variant Friday, county officials said, 24 hours after Colorado confirmed its first case. The Boulder County man had recently traveled to South Africa, the county’s public health department said. The patient tested positive for COVID-19, and given their recent travel history, their sample was flagged for…
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Free COVID-19 community testing site to open in Westminster
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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is opening another free COVID-19 community testing site Tuesday in Westminster. The testing site, at 10685 Westminster Blvd., will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. It will be operated in partnership with CDPHE, the city of Westminster and Mako Medical. Walk-ins are available at…
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Free COVID-19 testing site opens for Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas counties
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A new free COVID-19 community testing site opened in Bennett on Tuesday, open to all Coloradans but targeted to Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. The testing site, located at the Bennett Community Center on East Colfax Avenue, will be open every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after Thanksgiving from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. What happens…
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Colorado chief medical officer Wolk resigning to go to California
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Dr. Larry Wolk, the sometimes-controversial head of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, is leaving his post at the end of August and headed to California, according to an announcement Friday from Gov. John Hickenlooper. Wolk was appointed as the state’s chief medical officer in September 2013. In announcing Wolk’s departure, Hickenlooper said “Larry’s leadership…