The people responsible for cleaning up Colorado’s air applauded themselves this week for creating historic new policies intended to protect residents most vulnerable to pollution, but the people those rules are supposed to benefit say they’re disappointed.
So far, areas that have been identified by the state as disproportionately impacted communities include Commerce City and north Denver, almost all of Pueblo, neighborhoods in Montrose and Delta on the Western Slope, the lower Arkansas Valley and some areas in the San Luis Valley.
The commission approved a list of four toxins — benzene, toluene, ethyl benzen and xylene — that will be monitored via machines that take air samples along the borders of those major pollution sources, and it set a fee scale that companies will pay to fund theBut for months, environmentalists — especially those who represent Latino, Black, Indigenous and immigrant communities — asked the state to lengthen the list of toxins that will be monitored and to increase the amount of fees that...
“We feel like this rule did not fulfill the intention of the Environmental Justice Act, which was to protect communities that have been historically disproportionately impacted,” Garcia-Nelson said. “We feel like there are so many loopholes in this rule, which doesn’t even go far enough in the first place.”
“We are appreciative of the way handled the process, but these additional monitoring and modeling requirements will be yet another hurdle to efficient permitting for all Colorado businesses,” Dan Haley, president and chief executive officer of theThe statement also included commitments from the oil and gas association and theto support disproportionately impacted communities across the state. And it praised the state agencies for taking cautious steps in creating the new rules.
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