All Posts Tagged With: "air quality"
Colorado to Undertake Major Study on Oil and Gas Emissions
The project launching this summer will provide information about how oil and gas emissions behave, how they travel and their characteristics in areas along the northern Front Range. A second phase would assess possible health effects using information collected in the first phase.
9Jan2013 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
TRACKING Policy and Regulation News …
>> State’s Air Quality Plan Gets EPA Approval
>> Task Force Starts Work on Oil/Gas Regs
>> Tribe Gains Control of Oil and Gas on Reservation
>> DC Push for Clean Energy Program Extensions
>> Energy Hunt in Pawnee Grassland Gets Attention
Groups Claim BLM Cut-and-Paste Drilling Approvals Illegally Ignore Air Pollution Impacts
“The BLM has approved thousands of oil and gas wells with no analysis of the air pollution they cause,” said Peter Hart of Wilderness Workshop.“Instead, the agency simply cut-and-pasted incorrect boilerplate statements about the Roan EIS into its environmental analyses for dozens of projects.”
20Jun2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Raising the Stakes: Ground Zero Law Firm Sues Over Colorado Drilling
A New York law firm that won a major settlement for World Trade Center rescue workers is representing residents of Colorado’s Western Slope who say their health has been impacted by the boom in oil and gas operations in the region. Last week they filed their first lawsuit.
29Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Report Ranks Colorado 21st for Power Plant
CO2 Emissions
The bigger news is that CO2 emissions in the state decreased 47 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the report issued Friday by the Environmental Integrity Project. Nationwide, emissions rose more than 5.56 percent in 2010 from the previous year.
19Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy Collective is now based in Boulder Colorado. 
Though a small step and almost over 16 years into the die-off of our forests, this effort should be applauded ...
The best ballot initiative is one that will ban initiatives. Otherwise what is the point of electing legislators. 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
Tri-State Board Policy 117 limits member co-op generation to 5%.
LPEA has asked them to lift that for community solar gardens.
https://www.lpea.coop/pdf/board_meeting/resolutions/2012/201213_tristate_policy_117.pdf 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...