“Attorneys for state employee whistleblowers are asking EPA administrator Michael Regan to reexamine an emissions permit granted to the Cherokee Generating Station north of Denver. If the Biden administration agrees to the request, Xcel Energy may be forced to obtain a new emissions authorization for the Commerce City generating facility.
The May 10 demand that two Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility lawyers made to Regan follows the March 30 release of emails showing that the state’s Department of Public Health and Environment might have failed to follow short-term air pollution modeling requirements imposed by federal law.
“EPA has a legal obligation to ensure that Colorado is not shirking its Clean Air Act responsibilities — as the state is clearly doing here,” said Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain director of PEER, in a statement.”