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| State air commission adopts new rules to cut mercury pollution from coal plants 90% by 2018. | |
| The Environmental Protection Agency finalized new national air quality standards for particle | |
| With a stroke of his pen, Governor Owens vetoed the most important clean air legislation passed by Colorado | |
| Today a crowd of 50 citizens and activists joined local government officials, faith leaders, and environmental and public health advocates to ask Governor Owen | |
| Senate Says To Let Colorado Protect Air Quality Against Federal Clean Air Rollbacks. | |
| Bill Would Allow Colorado To Reject Federal Rollbacks | |
| Environment Colorado Hails Ruling As A Tremendous Victory For Public Health, Environment | |
| Utility Special Interests Trump Children | |
| As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote Monday on whether to overturn an EPA rule on power plant mercury emissions, a new Environment Colorado report shows that while states in the Gulf Coast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions currently lead the nation in power plant mercury emissions, Colorado has been given the go-ahead to join them. | |
| full public hearing process before submitting them to EPA for approval. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment took steps to formalize the rules yesterday on the same day that two Front Range air quality monitoring stations recorded levels of ozone in violation of federal health standards and an air quality advisory was issued for Rocky Mountain National Park. | |
| As many as 220 industrial facilities in Colorado would not have to comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that require steep reductions in their emissions of dozens of pollutants. | |
| A bipartisan group of legislators, including Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald and Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff, have requested a legislative hearing on proposed changes to the state's clean air rules. | |
| A new study shows that changes to Colorado's clean air rules will increase air pollution and health problems. | |
