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Colorado’s process for issuing air quality permits has flaws, but the evidence doesn’t support allegations that mistakes were motivated by managers’ bad intent or fraud, an independent probe by Troutman Pepper has found. The law firm conclude that Colorado’s ...

“An independent probe of Colorado’s air pollution permitting office has found clashing policies, internal confusion and a potential conflict of interest involving the office’s chief, but did not substantiate allegations of flagrant wrongdoing brought by three employees earlier ...

“Despite an alarming recent report by the United Nations that humanity has only a decade to avert a climate disaster, the National Park Service has succeeded in its long-contested plan to perpetuate commercial beef and dairy at Point Reyes in the only national seashore on the Pacific ...

The employees also alleged CDPHE was “suppressing information” and “approving air quality permits” that models showed would violate national air quality standards — the latter of which was substantiated. With the help of Maryland-based organization Public Employees for ...

“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 ...

The whistleblowers said that in March, Garry Kaufman, the division’s director, banned its modeling staff from conducting any review of EPA standard compliance in the case of hourly emissions standards for nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, three-hour standards for sulfur dioxide, and ...