Last November, the EPA announced that seven local governments and non-profit agencies would receive $2.9 million to conduct air pollution monitoring across Colorado, including in Metro Denver and the Northern Front Range, which are in severe violation of national air quality standards. The grants were part of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and were among 132 projects in 37 states receiving at total of $53.4 million.
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending millions on community air monitoring programs in Colorado but the non-profits receiving the money are struggling to do it.
An audit of former University of Colorado Boulder researcher Detlev Helmig alleges that he committed fiscal misconduct, including diverting business to his private company and costing the university more than $700,000.
Cultivando to stop monitoring air quality in Commerce City near Suncor. Cultivando, a nonprofit doing research on how air quality impacts community in commerce city