The bill has been in the works for two years, and its creation was championed by 24 environmental groups that, in a March letter of support, urged Gov. Jared Polis to back the legislation and criti…
Legislation being proposed in the Colorado General Assembly would make the state’s air pollution permitting rules more stringent, largely impacting the oil and gas industry and setting up a potential showdown between the governor and supporters of the bill in the statehouse and among environmental groups.
In an emailed statement, Conor Cahill, a spokesman for Polis, said the bill would create “major unintended consequences” that would negatively impact the economy. The bill would stall other plans to reduce ozone and other air pollutants, he said. . Ozone pollution causes asthma, harms lung development in babies and young children and other diseases.
“In fact, it would only downgrade air quality, as Colorado would be forced to import out-of-state and foreign energy as new production of oil and gas is eliminated,” Haley said.If passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, the bill would require the state’s Air Pollution Control Division to conduct air quality modeling on permit applications for oil and gas sites to predict whether they will emit set amounts of pollutants such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen oxide.
“We want to do modeling in advance to know what the pollution levels will be, not build it and let it pollute,” Curry said. The bill is not retroactive, so it would not affect companies that already have permits regulating their emissions.Environmentalists started working with legislators on a similar bill for the 2022 legislative session, but it wasn’t introduced. Then the primary sponsor was forced to resign before the 2023 legislative session got underway because she wasBut Rep. Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver, agreed to take it up this session with Willford as a co-sponsor. Sens.
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