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Category: Air Pollution

Posted on June 26, 2020July 15, 2020

Colorado Community Members use their Voices to Protect the Health and Safety of their Community

Battlement Mesa Prepares for a Continued Fight for Safer Drilling Practices When Bonnie Smeltzer moved to Battlement Mesa in 2002 at the age of 74,…

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Posted on March 10, 2020April 16, 2020

Bonding Crisis Looms in Colorado as Gas Prices Tip Into the Red

Residents of Battlement Mesa and Rifle, Colorado, are on the verge of seeing gas companies abandoning their wells and leaving taxpayers to clean up the…

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Posted on December 12, 2019January 30, 2020

Fighting for Clean Air in North Dakota

Joletta Bird Bear and Fort Berthold POWER Still Have a Long Way to Go to Get Clean Air on the Reservation. Flares danced all the…

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Posted on November 20, 2017January 30, 2020

Working for Clean Desert Air

"My name is Kristin Winn. I live in Grand Junction Colorado. I have lived here for about 22 years. I grew up in Chicago where…

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fighting methane pollution in cheyenne wyoming
Posted on August 22, 2017January 30, 2020

Forging Allyships in a Time of Adversity

I’m Wayne Lax from, originally, Detroit, Michigan. We moved to Wyoming in 1999 and have been here ever since. We had no knowledge or background…

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Posted on June 12, 2017January 30, 2020

The Real Cost of Extractive Economies on Communities

"My name is Lowell Lewis, I'm going to be 70 this year. My wife, son and I moved here from Connecticut in 1985, and we've…

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