CPR: Colorado approved new climate rules for manufacturers. Environmental groups worry they will let companies increase pollution
After more than two days of debate, Colorado air regulators approved a suite of regulations late Friday night they say will cut climate-warming emissions from some of the state’s largest industrial polluters.
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Denver Gazette: Environmental groups angered by new rule on industrial emissions
An emissions reduction rule for large industries approved by state air pollution regulators has environmental groups castigating the rule for weakening pollution control and ignoring the Environmental Justice Act.
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Fox 31: Voting Open for People’s Choice Award
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Good Day Colorado: Voting for People’s Choice is Now Open
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FOX21 Morning News: People’s Choice Voting is Now Open
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Colorado Politics: Polis’ policy coddles polluters, ignores impacted communities
The Colorado Chamber of Commerce has weighed in on GEMM 2. In a letter to Polis, it praises the APCD for including the “impacted companies and other stakeholders” in its rule-making.
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Politico E&E News: ‘Worse than doing nothing’: Greens fume at Colo. climate plan
Colorado regulators this week will consider some of the first climate rules in the country specifically targeting the hard-to-decarbonize manufacturing sector.
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Colorado Sun: Colorado air commission approves smokestack rules opponents call “unjust” and “pay-to-play”
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission late Friday approved new limits on smokestack pollution from 18 large corporations, a vote immediately denounced by 44 local governments and environmental groups who called it a cave-in to industry and a gutting of environmental justice laws passed in 2021.
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