State health staff recommends limiting local government use of ozone-creating lawn equipment, rather than the sales ban metro experts want
Michael Booth
Michael Booth is the Sun’s environment writer, and co-author of the Sun’s weekly climate and health newsletter The Temperature. He is co-author with Jennifer Brown of the Colorado Book Award-winning food safety investigation “Eating Dangerously.” Booth was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news. He also writes frequently about inexplicable obsessions that include tamarisk, black-footed ferrets and tire fires. Booth also serves as the underpaid driver for four children, and plans to eventually hike every inch of Colorado.
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Colorado wants to create carbon-capture hubs across the state. But locals aren’t sold.
State officials are all in on making Pueblo, Yuma and other areas into carbon-capture hubs, for jobs and revenue. But neighbors of the smokestacks don’t want more carbon under their ground.
Posted inEnvironment
Chaffee County gets $4 million from EPA for new recycling station
Big funding boost follows failures of other green efforts for Buena Vista and the surrounding county.
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Cemex fined $357K for Boulder County air pollution violations, faces more probes
State inspectors cited a litany of violations in settling with the Lyons plant, while activists continue fighting pollution and alleged land use infractions
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Colorado’s next greenhouse gas cuts target big smokestacks. Will it be enough?
The likes of Molson Coors, Leprino Foods and Cargill face new climate rules, but environmental groups say state’s proposal does not protect minorities or even make real cuts.
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EPA fines Suncor for producing fuel with too many pollutants, orders company to pay $600K for clean lawn equipment
The federal agency settlement says Suncor must reimburse residents for buying ozone-trimming lawnmowers and blowers
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New oil and gas rules would raise BLM royalties in Colorado and across nation, demand land protections
Raising fees and cleanup insurance while slowing leasing heartens environmentalists but provokes industry criticism.
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Tests find more Colorado towns’ drinking water is contaminated with “forever chemicals”
Aurora, Thornton, Keystone area say they are altering sources, filtering or preparing treatment plants to fight the PFAS threat
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Colorado revives “cash for clunkers,” offers $6,000 for an old car you trade for an EV
Piling clunker credits on top of existing state and federal electric vehicle rebates can land you a very, very cheap new car.
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BLM shifts green on 2 million Western Slope acres, setting up Colorado clash of environment vs. oil
Far bigger chunks of pristine public lands would be walled off from extraction, as federal land managers are ordered to consider climate impacts of activities on land spanning Eagle, Mesa and Pitkin counties