The air quality improvement plans target the state’s oil and gas industry, which was responsible last year for almost half of the emissions that cause ozone pollution in Colorado.
“These actions will significantly improve air quality and reduce levels of ozone pollution, with immediate cuts in ozone-causing chemicals in Colorado’s air in the next two years and the largest ongoing reduction in NOx from oil and gas in Colorado’s history,” the
to leaders of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.Oil and gas executives want the government’s rules to give them plenty of room to find ways to cut emissions on their own. Their engineers and scientists can figure it out faster and more efficiently than the government, said Dan Haley, president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. “It will be difficult to meet the timeline he’s set up,” Haley said.
Nitrogen oxide thresholds would be even lower in areas that are designated as disproportionately impacted by air pollution, such as Pueblo, and in Denver and the northern Front Range, where the EPA classifies air quality as in severe non-attainment. There also would be a new form for companies to fill out and that information would determine what kind of modeling would be required.The new plan is described as a guideline, which doesn’t require the same governmental formalities as formal rulemaking. It’s open for
until May 4. The Air Pollution Control Division could make changes based on public input. No date has been set for when the rules will go into effect.“Protecting the air is our top priority,” Michael Ogletree, director of the Air Pollution Control Division, said in a news release. “These new guidelines advance our ongoing work using science, technology and policy to ensure everybody breathes cleaner air, particularly in communities bearing the brunt of air pollution from industrial sources.
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