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Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Conservation groups representing millions of people petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to improve standards to protect communities from outdoor air pollution.

Colorado likely will need to rewrite its plan to reduce ozone pollution after a federal court determined it was illegal for the state to ignore emissions from oil and gas fracking as it tries to improve its air quality.

Colorado likely will need to rewrite its plan to reduce ozone pollution after a federal court determined it was illegal for the state to ignore emissions from oil and gas fracking as it tries to improve its air quality.

Center for Biological Diversity: DENVER— A federal appeals court ruled today that Colorado’s rule allowing unlimited amounts of air pollution from drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil and methane gas without a permit is illegal.

The Center for Biological Diversity and 350 Colorado asked a court today for permission to join the Environmental Protection Agency’s fight against a Polis administration lawsuit seeking to block public access to data detailing oil and gas industry air pollution. The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division lawsuit is attempting to reverse an EPA decision prohibiting the state from continuing to hide from the public information revealing levels of harmful emissions from fossil fuel industries ...

Conservation and public-health groups filed a petition urging the Environmental Protection Agency to require adequate testing of the toxic air pollution emitted by four oil and gas well pads owned and operated by the Bonanza Creek Energy Operating Company. New permits for the facilities fail to require adequate testing of flares used to burn off toxic pollution, according to the petition filed Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, 350 ...

Two environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency over what they say is a failure to make sure Colorado is cleaning up its polluted air.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Colorado’s plans to tackle ozone pollution is again being challenged in court by environmental groups, who say state and federal officials are failing to

Two environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency over what they say is a failure to make sure Colorado is cleaning up its polluted air.

A federal appeals court today rejected an attempt by commissioners in Colorado’s Weld County to let some oil and gas operations off the hook for their contribution to asthma-causing smog in the Denver and Front Range region. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency properly included northern Weld County in the smog clean-up zone. Today’s decision confirms that companies operating thousands of oil and gas wells in the area must reduce ozone...