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Mow Down Pollution 2012 A Success

The Mow Down Pollution event has been completed for 2012. A big "Thank You" to all of our partners and participants who made the event a success! Three large, roll-off dumpsters were filled with gas-powered mowers and approximately 315 mowers were purchased. If you...

Colorado Offers Tax Credit for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

  The State of Colorado is offering an Innovative Motor Vehicle Credit of up to $6,000 to taxpayers who have purchased an alternative fuel vehicle, converted a motor vehicle to use an alternative fuel, or replaced a vehicle’s power source with an...

RAQC welcomes new staff member

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...

Tightening of Ozone Standard Delayed to 2013

  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...

U.S. regulators delay smog rule for fourth time

The Environmental Protection Agency is again delaying issuing a final limit on ozone (smog) pollution until the Obama administration has finished reviewing it.  The rule is going through interagency review at the White House Office of Management...