May 3, 2012 | News Room - News
As required by the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 30, 2012 announced final designations for 45 areas under the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. The nine-county Denver Metro...
Apr 23, 2012 | News Room - News
The Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC) is offering an Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) Camera to assist industry and local governments/health departments in voluntarily identifying and repairing gas leaks at oil and gas industry exploration and production facilities along...
Mar 19, 2012 | News Room - News
Meg Alderton joined the RAQC in March 2012 as Communications Manager. In this capacity, Meg leads the RAQC’s external communications, community outreach and media relations activities; serves as liaison to the public, local governments, businesses and other...
Dec 10, 2011 | News Room - News
In a December 8, 2011 letter to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, EPA expressed its intent to support Colorado’s 2009 recommended ozone area designation and boundary for the Denver Metropolitan and North Front Range...
Sep 2, 2011 | News Room - News
The Obama Administration has pushed back the tightening of the federal ozone standard which lobbyists say could cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. The current standard of 75 parts per billion set in 2008 by the Bush administration...
Aug 5, 2011 | News Room - News
EPA published the Final Rule for Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; State of Colorado; Attainment Demonstration for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard, and Approval of Related Revisions in the Federal Register, Vol. 76, No....