Published 10-4-2020, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Since 2013, Citizens for Clean Air (CCA) has studied the range of potential air pollutants in Mesa County, of which residential and agricultural burning are just a part. Our work is driven by science as well as...
It is hard to process the changes that have taken place since our March Newsletter. The world has been thrust into a state of bewilderment, social upheaval, and most importantly perhaps: opportunity. CCA has not lost sight of our mission to research the causes and...
Desperate Times Call for Common Sense Measures—Open Burning Many of us are over 60, the high risk group for COVID-19. Others have underlying health issues that make us even more vulnerable. Some are practicing self-quarantine. Hopefully each of us is using social...
Background The “Whitewater Unit” (approximately 90,400 acres), is located about 15 miles east and southeast of the City of Grand Junction. Several oil and gas companies have drilled exploratory wells in that area beginning in the 1970s and early ‘80s. Few of those...
Citizens for Clean Air joined other local, state and national organizations, citizens and businesses in urging elected officials to regulate the venting, flaring, and leaking of methane gas from oil and gas infrastructure.2014: CCA members joined hundreds of others...
