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Critics blast regulators over Colorado’s first use of new environmental justice law in fuel-storage controversy

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.

 

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