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A Colorado nonprofit turned down $500,000 from EPA to monitor air pollution. Here’s why.

EPA is funding more community air monitoring in Colorado, but nonprofits struggle to roll it out

Michael Ogletree, director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Enviornment's Air Pollution Control Division, chats with officials next to an air monitoring chart after a news conference in Northglenn, Colorado, on Oct. 18, 2023. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator KC Becker and Northglenn Mayor Meredith Leighty hosted a group of state and local health partners and elected officials to highlight enhanced community-led air quality monitoring projects in Adams County and Jefferson County. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Michael Ogletree, director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Enviornment’s Air Pollution Control Division, chats with officials next to an air monitoring chart after a news conference in Northglenn, Colorado, on Oct. 18, 2023. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator KC Becker and Northglenn Mayor Meredith Leighty hosted a group of state and local health partners and elected officials to highlight enhanced community-led air quality monitoring projects in Adams County and Jefferson County. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
By | nphillips@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Last November, the EPA announced that seven local governments and non-profit agencies would receive $2.9 million to conduct air pollution monitoring across Colorado, including in Metro Denver and the Northern Front Range, which are in severe violation of national air quality standards. The grants were part of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and were among 132 projects in 37 states receiving at total of $53.4 million.
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