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

The people responsible for cleaning up Colorado’s air applauded themselves this week for creating historic new policies intended to protect residents most vulnerable to pollution, but the people those rules are supposed to benefit say they’re disappointed. Recommendations from people who represent the Latino, Black, Indigenous and immigrant communities situated near major sources of pollution were ignored by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and the state’s Air Pollution Control Division, Patricia Garcia-Nelson of Green Latinos Colorado said Friday. “I would like the agency to show us where they implemented community feedback because so far we don’t see it,” Garcia-Nelson said.

 

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