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Community advocates immediately criticize Colorado’s newly adopted environmental justice rules

The rules require more tracking of air pollution in low-income, minority communities

Xcel Energy's Comanche Generating Station, a 1410 megawatt, coal-fired power plant, on Jan. 7, 2020. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Xcel Energy’s Comanche Generating Station, a 1410 megawatt, coal-fired power plant, on Jan. 7, 2020. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
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The environmental justice new rules will put more stringent air-quality modeling and monitoring in place for specific pollutants in areas where people of color and low-income residents live near big polluters such as the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City.
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