By Noelle Phillips
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For the second time in a month, the Environmental Protection Agency has fined Suncor Energy for violations at its Commerce City oil refinery.
Suncor will pay $760,000 after it produced gasoline that did not mee...
The Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement agreement with Suncor Energy after the federal agency found multiple flaws in the Commerce City refinery’s safety reporting systems during a 2020 inspection.
The EPA’s inspection followed a 2019 malfunction that caused the refinery to spew as...
Suncor Energy’s pollution permits in Colorado for both air and water are outdated and out of touch with modern expectations for environmental protection.
For unknown or perhaps inexplicable reasons, updating the expired permits for the Commerce City refinery has been elusive for the Colorado Depart...
By Noelle Phillips
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Federal officials this month fined Suncor Energy more than $15,000 for a safety violation that led two employees to be injured in a December fire at the company’s Commerce City oil refinery.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued ...
Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire
Recent “upsets” like tripped compressors, pressure loss and freezing weather resulted in the thousands of pounds of illegal pollution but no fines or citations from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
By Dylan Baddour
May 9, 2...
May 2 (Reuters) - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales.The bill is one of the furthest-reaching efforts yet by U.S. Republicans against...
Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs climb in American Lung Association’s rankings of most polluted cities
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PUBLISHED: April 20, 2023 at 11:09 a.m. | UPDATED: April 20, 2023 at 3:48 p.m.
Three Colorado cities are going in...
By NOELLE PHILLIPS |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2023 at 12:51 p.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.
Two natural gas processors doing business in Colorado agreed this week to multi-million dollar settlements with the federal government over continuous viol...
Large-scale operations put a lot of pressure on regional power grids
By Gabriel J.X. Dance
The New York Times
Texas was gasping for electricity. Winter Storm Uri had knocked out power plants across the state, leaving tens of thousands of homes in icy darkness. By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly ...
By Sibi Arasu
The Associated Press
The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the biggest source of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere, a report Wednesday found.
The coal fleet grew by 19.5 gigawatts last year, enough to light up ...
Select committee looking for ways to protect customers from skyrocketing rates
By Judith Kohler
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As Colorado legislators and officials from the state’s regulated utilities sorted through ways to avoid a repeat of this winter’s huge increases in heating bills, one lawmaker as...
EDITORIAL
The Denver Post
Suncor Energy’s refinery operations in Commerce City are of regional concern — for health and safety, for the supply of fuels and asphalt, for problematic greenhouse gas emissions, and for environmental protection.
Yet, Suncor refuses to be transparent about any of...
By Constant Méheut and Catherine Porter
The New York Times
PARIS>> Danone, the French dairy giant, is being taken to court by three environmental groups who say it has failed to reduce its plastic footprint sufficiently, in a lawsuit challenging corporate social responsibility in the face of...
By Constant Méheut
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PARIS » As France reels from a summer of extreme temperatures and soaring energy prices, prompting increasingly urgent calls to rein in polluters contributing to global warming, one high-flying culprit is finding itself in the cross hairs: the private je...
By Fabiola Sánchez and Mark Stevenson
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY » As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration’s populist policies have driven the revival of the dangerous, primitive mines that continue claiming l...
By Oscar Lopez
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MEXICO CITY » On a recent scorching afternoon in his home state of Tabasco, the president of Mexico celebrated his government’s latest triumph: a new oil refinery.
Although not yet operational, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hailed the refinery as a ...
Chemicals dumped into Sand Creek, South Platte River
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
A substantial portion of PFAS — or forever chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects — found last year in Sand Creek and the South Platte River can be traced to the Suncor Energy oil refinery, a new ...
Reclassification as a “severe” violator would mean higher gas prices, more emissions permits
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
After years of failing to improve air quality, the Denver region is on the verge of receiving another downgrade by the Environmental Protection Agency that would...
By Sydney McDonald
Broomfield Enterprise
Broomfield officials have issued a notice of a potential breach to Extraction Oil & Gas regarding a March 12 fire at Interchange Pad A.
An email from City and County Manager Jennifer Hoffman, which was sent Monday and released three days later on Broom...
Agency concerned about air quality around oil refinery in Commerce City
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday objected to the state’s proposed operating permit renewal for the Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City and expressed concerns ab...
