On today’s show, we talk about the ongoing struggle between Colorado regulatory agencies, the federal government, and Suncor refinery, the state’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases that’s in a mostly Latino residential North Denver community. The Environmental Protection Agency announced […]
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission held a series of meetings last week to discuss air quality plans for the near future. This comes as the Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that air quality across much of the Front Range is […]
The Front Range urban corridor is likely to experience record-breaking September temperatures today and tomorrow. Three elementary schools in the Denver Public Schools system will not open today and another 30 schools will release students early because of the lack of […]
The Boulder County Planning Commission will weigh in on extending permits for Cemex, a cement manufacturing company and one of the worst polluters in Colorado on September 14th again. Boulder County Staff and the Department of Parks and open space […]
Colorado issued an operating permit to Suncor refinery in northwest Denver last week after a 12-year delay. The Colorado Department of Health and Environment, the agency responsible for issuing the permit, blamed its failure to act for more than a […]
The Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA’s authority over setting greenhouse gas emissions late last month. KGNU’s Alexis Kenyon spoke with Kate Merlin, an environmental lawyer for Colorado’s WildEarth Guardians, about what this decision means for Colorado’s fossil fuel […]
(View of Denver From Top of Lookout Mountain. Credit: Maneybe via Wikimedia Commons) Today kicks off Air Quality Awareness Week. Several federal agencies – including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Weather […]
On today’s Morning Magazine, we discuss what “severe” levels of ozone can mean for Coloradans. After that, how smaller wells across the Front Range contribute to about half of the area’s methane pollution. Finally, the CityCast Denver crew visits a […]
