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For Immediate Release, December 22, 2020 Contact: Robert Ukeiley, (720) 496-8568, rukeiley@biologicaldiversity.org Colorado Officials Admit State’s Smog-reduction Plan Already Failed to Protect Colorado From Deadly Pollution, Then Approve It Anyway DENVER— The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission has approved a plan that was supposed to reduce smog in the North Front Range by this past summer, even though state officials knew the plan had already failed to deliver the required pollution reductions. Levels of ground-level ozon...

For Immediate Release, December 17, 2020 Contact: In Gift to Frackers, Gov. Polis Refuses to Push for Speedier Smog Protections DENVER— Gov. Jared Polis has announced he will not urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act swiftly to protect the Denver Metro/North Front Range area by raising the smog protection level from serious to severe. Late Wednesday the governor denied a request from a diverse array of organizations and local elected officials that he ask the EPA for a voluntary “bump up” to the severe protection level. That would have sped urgent...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Summary: New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% ...