{"id":802386,"date":"2019-12-17T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376107"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:12:00","slug":"epa-declares-colorado-a-serious-violator-of-federal-air-quality-standards-forcing-stricter-efforts-to-reduce-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/epa-declares-colorado-a-serious-violator-of-federal-air-quality-standards-forcing-stricter-efforts-to-reduce-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA declares Colorado a \u201cserious\u201d violator of federal air quality standards, forcing stricter efforts to reduce pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"917\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-9.12.48-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-9.12.48-AM.png 917w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-9.12.48-AM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-9.12.48-AM-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\"><figcaption><strong>A smoky haze envelopes the skyscrapers and Rocky Mountains that usually can be seen as a backdrop to the city from a high-rise building in Denver on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018.<\/strong><br \/><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday reclassified Colorado as a \u201cserious\u201d violator of federal air quality laws, forcing stricter state efforts to reduce air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEPA is taking this action based on monitoring data showing that ozone remains a challenge in Denver and northern Front Range communities,\u201d the agency\u2019s regional administrator Greg Sopkin said in a prepared statement announcing the decision.<\/p>\n<p>This triggers a requirement that Colorado must reduce pollution by 2021, and the state health department plans to issue permits for any industrial operation that emits more than 50 tons of pollution a year, down from the current permitting threshold of 100 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment air pollution control officials are planning to issue about 600 more permits, which set limits and give a basis for compliance inspections. The officials within a year must submit a plan to the EPA for reducing ozone levels to meet health standards.<\/p>\n<p>Read more via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/12\/16\/colorado-air-quality-pollution-standards\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/epa-declares-colorado-a-serious-violator-of-federal-air-quality-standards-forcing-stricter-efforts-to-reduce-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smoky haze envelopes the skyscrapers and Rocky Mountains that usually can be seen as a backdrop to the city from a high-rise building in Denver on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018.Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday reclassified Colorado as a \u201cserious\u201d violator of federal air quality laws, forcing stricter state efforts to reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 08:25:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}