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Judge sides with group seeking e-bike ban

by Elizabeth Duan | March 31, 2021
“A federal judge ruled yesterday that e-bike opponents can move forward with their legal challenge of a National Park Service policy that allows use of electric bicycles. Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that NPS made a “ ...

Whistleblowers accuse CDPHE of ignoring clean air standards to issue new permits

“A group of whistleblowers have accused the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment of disregarding clean air standards for the sake of approving permits of industrial polluters. “I’ve never had the entire professional staff of a department come to us and say with ...

Complaint to EPA says Colo. agency pulled back on monitoring

“A whistleblower complaint sent yesterday to EPA’s inspector general alleges that Colorado air officials ordered employees to no longer measure surges of fine particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Maryland-based Public Employees for Environmental ...

Whistleblowers: Colorado air quality staff told to disregard data for permit approvals

by Elizabeth Duan | March 30, 2021
“Three whistleblowers within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) alleged this week that supervisors ordered staff to knowingly break the law by stopping some air pollution modeling and falsifying data. “The standards that are set in place for the ...

Colorado’s air quality enforcers ordered staff to relax measuring of pollution, state whistleblowers allege

“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 whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday alleging a culture of approving permits for ...

Colorado air pollution control managers ordered staff to falsify data and approve permits “at all costs,” whistleblowers say

“State air pollution control managers endangered the health of Coloradans by unlawfully approving noxious gas permits for industry without federally-mandated modeling or monitoring, according to a whistleblowing complaint filed Tuesday by technical employees inside the agency. The ...