Mesa County announces new burning regulations

At our 6th Annual Air Quality Forum on February 11, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Citizens for Clean Air, Mesa County announced that they were changing their open burning regulations to follow the lead of the City of Grand Junction. This was welcome news...

Silent Night–Holy Smokes!

Indoor Air Pollution Observations using Purple Air Particulate Monitors December 12, 2018 Several members of Citizens for Clean Air ran some non-scientific tests of air quality inside their homes using the Purple air particulate monitors recently, and came across some...

Low vehicle emission standards aren’t linked to electric cars

This is a guest editorial submitted to the Daily Sentinel that ran on 11-25-2018. It was written in response to the recent action by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission to adopt Low Emission Vehicle Standards beginning in 2022. By Karen Sjoberg, Co-chair,...

What’s wrong with regulations regarding methane?

The Trump administration has done everything in its power to roll back “burdensome” environmental regulations, especially as they relate to oil and gas development. Regulations about venting, flaring and leaking of methane during oil and gas drilling, extraction, and...