Colorado air quality division issued permits despite potential violations of EPA standards, report finds
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Elizabeth Duan | September 24, 2021
“State health officials say they don’t have enough guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency to know when to estimate whether smaller polluters in Colorado exceed air quality limits on particulates, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. That lack of guidance led to the state ...
State-Ordered Investigation Clears Colorado Air Regulator Of Falsifying Data — But Finds Its Pollution Monitoring Policies ‘Conflicting’
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Allegations by state employees that the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division fabricated and suppressed pollution data to issue permits for a gold mine were unsubstantiated, according to a report from independent investigators released Friday. Kevin Bell, an attorney with Public ...
Whistleblowers raised valid concerns about Colorado air pollution monitoring, probe finds, but problems were unintentional
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PEER |
The whistleblower’s initial complaint to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General is still under investigation, according to the whistleblower attorneys at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER. The report “seems to be technically proficient but it is going out of ...
Colorado air agency’s policies ‘inadequate,’ but no evidence of falsified data, report says
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Friday released the results of an independent investigation into allegations of illegal air-quality permitting procedures made earlier this year by three whistleblowers in the state’s Air Pollution Control Division. Kevin Bell, an attorney ...
Smokescreen: Years of internal complaints suggest air agency’s favoritism toward polluters
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PEER | September 23, 2021
“Because the division’s practices are currently undergoing review as part of an independent investigation facilitated by the Attorney General’s Office, the division will not comment further at this time,” he added. The three modelers are far from the first employees to voice such ...
Environmental inspections fell in Florida during COVID-19 pandemic
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PEER |
State environmental investigators inspected fewer potential violations in 2020 than in 2019, but the number of enforcement actions reached their highest level in nearly a decade, according to a new study from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Department of Environmental ...
