EPA opens investigation of Colorado's oil&gas permitting process and ties to racial discrimination.
Our only oil refinery is in the middle of a heavily hispanic, lower income area. And guess what, the refinery regularly "malfunctions" and just happens to spew pollution into a poor and brown community.
Lots of reasons to shut that place down and environmental justice is another good reason.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/29/epa-environmental-racism-colorado-air-pollution/

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EPA investigating Colorado for discriminatory air pollution

The EPA is using the Civil Rights Act to probe whether Colorado's regulation of major polluters discriminates against minority residents

The Colorado Sun