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Colorado approves oil refinery s plan to fix air pollution
May 24, 2021
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DENVER (AP) Air pollution regulators in Colorado have accepted a third party consultant s recommendations on changes that will help prevent an oil refinery from releasing toxins into a Denver suburb.
Suncor Energy Inc. reached a $9 million settlement with the state Department of Public Health and Environment in March 2020 after years of toxic emissions and air quality violations near Commerce City, northeast of Denver, The Colorado Sun reported Monday.
Suncor was required to hire a consultant as part of the settlement agreement and spend at least $5 million on upgrades to the plant.
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For three years, Citizens for Clean Air has worked to collect data on local air pollution to complement existing state efforts, and since our founding nearly eight years ago, we have participated regularly in state air quality rulemakings through written comments and testimonials at public hearings.
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In drafting their long-disputed permit renewal for Suncor Energy’s refinery in Commerce City, state air pollution officials used the same 2010 internal guidance memo that they recently “retired” after whistleblowers called the memo illegal and…
Colorado Sun
Attorneys for the whistleblowing state air pollution division employees late Friday asked the Colorado Attorney General’s Office to broadly expand the scope of its previously announced investigation into the state health department’s handling of numerous industry permits.
The whistleblowers currently or formerly employed by the Air Pollution Control Division, who have grown from three to five since the complaint first went public March 30, want the AG’s investigation to include new allegations about the state’s handling of multiple coal-fired power plants and Newmont Mining’s Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine in Teller County.
The whistleblowers claim the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment “has not only done a disservice to Colorado’s public, but has unnecessarily endangered their health and wellbeing by exposing them to high levels of air pollution that could and should have been prevented,” according to their attorneys at the Public