EPA Eyes Denver’s Voluntary Air Monitoring Program As National Model

EPA is considering whether a Denver-based community air monitoring program could become a national agency-backed prototype as part of the Biden administration’s effort to bolster environmental justice (EJ) considerations by expanding non-regulatory community air monitoring programs. The approach could provide an alternative to mandatory monitoring requirements that environmentalists are pushing the agency to adopt but which officials are resisting. Chet Wayland, director of EPA’s Air Quality Assessment Division in the Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards (OAQPS), told the...