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For people living and working near the Magellan-Dupont gasoline storage facility in Commerce City, the company’s decision earlier this month to cancel its proposed expansion across the street from an elementary school was an environmental victory. Yet the situation left people feeling disappointed when it comes to Colorado’s new Environmental Justice Act and whether or not the state’s air pollution regulators followed it in the first real test of how the new law would work. The Dupont neighborhood where the storage tanks sit is classified under the act as a disproportionately impacted community because the people who live there are mostly Latino and earn less money than the rest of Colorado.

Instead of making and testing samples by hand over weeks or months, researchers at the University of Tennessee use smart robots that can produce and test at least 100 different materials within an hour. Many human activities release pollutants into the air, water and soil. These harmful chemicals threaten the health of both people and the ecosystem.

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