“The haze you see isn’t just from the prescribed burn at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. There’s another source of polluting stuff in the air, and it’s drifting your way because of lax enforcement from the state’s Air Quality Control Department (AQCD), a division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), a name that’s become an oxymoron.
Many industrial operations, large and small, need these permits. PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility representing the whistle blowers, cites “an incomplete list of permits issued with potential or actual modeled National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) violations.””
