“Ambitious” policy targets nitrogen oxide leakage to meet federal standards “Ambitious” policy targets nitrogen oxide leakage to meet federal standards
By Judith Kohler
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The state’s oil and gas industry will face new rules cracking down on emissions as the state battles to b...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
With the threat of missing another benchmark for improving air quality hovering like a blanket of summer smog, Colorado’s top environmental officials are asking the legislature for $47 million to hire more people and build better technology for monitoring...
By Jamey Keaten
The Associated Press
GENEVA » The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems...
WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a plan that would restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can’t control.
The federal plan announced Friday is intended to help more ...
By Raf Casert
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS » Europe’s sky is filling up with near-empty polluting planes that serve little other purpose than safeguarding airlines’ valuable time slots at some of the world’s most important airports.
The highly contagious omicron variant of COVID19 has pu...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
One of Colorado health officials’ recommendations for enduring the noxious air pollution that’s enveloped residents this summer, included on the state’s air quality website until Wednesday evening, was to “try to move to a place with cleaner air.”
T...
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Metro Denver and Fort Collins rank increasingly high on a notorious list that comes out each year — the worst U.S. cities for air pollution.
Only the Los Angeles area and parts of California’s Central Valley now consistently outperform Colorado’s Front Range ci...
“Electronic noses” helping Denver to purge foul odors By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Odor-detecting “electronic noses” deployed this past month mark Denver’s latest push to purge its olfactory environment as foul fumes again waft into neighborhoods, intensifying with spring as the weather ...
Complaint: Pollution measures relaxed by CDPHE leadership
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado officials responsible for controlling air pollution this month ordered employees to stop measuring surges of harmful sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulates, according to a whistle...
By Aman Azhar March 15, 2021
For Vicki Cruz, a social worker who lives in the Magnolia Park section of Houston, her health situation couldn’t have gotten a whole lot worse since she came down with Covid-19 over Christmas.
And then it did, when a hard freeze and snowstorm hit Texas last ...
By Laura Sanicola, Erwin Seba NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. oil refiners released tons of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this past week, according to figures provided to the state, as refineries and petrochemical plants in the region scrambled to shut production during frig...
Shared from the 10/5/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By The Associated Press
CARLSBAD, N.M.» Leading oil companies in the Permian Basin are working with a Colorado-based nonprofit environmental organization to better track emissions from the industry as it tries to curb pollution.
Shell Energy,...
Air pollution makes people more vulnerable to respiratory infections; climate change brings people in closer contact with animals that can spread disease. BY NEELA BANERJEE MAR 12, 2020
Doctors and public health researchers are getting an increasingly accurate and nuanced picture o...
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Scientists study the impact as coronavirus pandemic results in less driving and industrial activity By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
So long, sulfur dioxide. Goodbye, carbon monoxide.
At least temporarily, air pollution that hurts ...
https://www.inverse.com/science/second-hand-smoke-us-maps Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades.
As it turns out, much of this pollution originates not in a person’s own neighborhood, but up to hundreds...
Shared from the 2/9/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
Take a deep breath – you can do this Small actions by residents can add up quickly to improve air quality By Sue McMillin Columnist for The Denver Post-extract
Here is what you can do.
• Refuel your vehicle during cooler even...