Colorado urged to re-write coal plant permit

June 15, 2021
Environmentalists are calling on Colorado regulators to re-write the air permit of a local coal-fired power plant, and to reclassify the surrounding area as “nonattainment” with federal sulfur dioxide (SO2) limits, in further fallout from a whistleblower claim that the state evaded necessary air pollution modeling for many facilities. In a June 11 letter to state air regulators , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Colorado Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and four other community groups asked...


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