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After years of air pollution releases at the Suncor oil and gas refinery in Commerce City, Colo., Olga Gonzalez is glad to see plans for real-time air monitors in the largely Latinx neighborhoods around the facility. She isn't sure people in the community are ready to trust the company, the state or the city to run those networks. “Our own independent monitors would inspire greater trust amongst our community,” Gonzalez said. “That’s what we're trying to do here.” Gonzalez is the executive director of Cultivando, a Commerce City nonprofit that helps residents get involved in local p...

4:59 Dr. Detlev Helmig, an air quality researcher from Boulder, has given dozens of public presentations on pollution over the past few years in communities along the Front Range. When he is not speaking to the public, he’s often found at Boulder Reservoir, at one of 5 research sites he operates in the area. This small hut is full of air monitoring equipment that tracks everything from ozone to VOCs, that’s Volatile Organic Compounds which are emitted by oil and gas operations. While Boulder County is tightening regulations on drilling, its neighbor to the east, Weld County, is the most f...