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You may have noticed the haze that has settled over the Front Range in the last few days. And you might have gotten a push notification alerting you to the poor air quality. But what should you do with that? We’ll hear about what these notifications mean for your health on today’s In the NoCo.
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A study focused on the Great Salt Lake in Utah looked at the correlation between decreasing water levels and and increase in harmful air particles. It's an issue that could affect other lakes around the country.
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When toxic gasses leak into the atmosphere, they are impossible to see. But scientists at CU Boulder are designing a technology to detect chemical threats.
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A new report from the American Lung Association shows cities across the Western U.S. have some of the most polluted air in the country. But that’s not the case everywhere in the Mountain West.
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Gov. Jared Polis and top Democrats announced an agreement with the fossil fuel industry and environmental advocates to avert a ballot box fight in November. As part of the deal, lawmakers scrapped more aggressive regulatory proposals in place of two new bills, with just days left in the legislative session.
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Last week the Broomfield City Council voted unanimously to leave the Community Noise Roundtable, a coalition of local communities working to address noise issues at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. The move comes after Boulder County, the town of Superior and hundreds of area residents filed lawsuits against Jefferson County, which owns the airport. Chris Wood, publisher and editor at BizWest, joined KUNC’s Nikole Robinson Carroll to dig into the story.
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Redlining happened in the 1930s and 40s, when lenders identified areas where people of color lived and denied them mortgages. Today on In the NoCo, we look at new research that links Denver's historically redlined neighborhoods to high levels of air pollution.
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Rapid growth at several airports, including Rocky Mountain Metropolitan in northern Colorado, has sparked lawsuits, thousands of noise complaints and health concerns about airborne lead pollution in neighboring communities.
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Six months ago, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport Director Paul Anslow didn’t want to talk about leaded fuel. He said he had "zero control" over the airport's use of it. Today, the airport is racing to become the first in Colorado to completely phase the fuel out.
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New research shows air quality gains in the U.S. have been cut by wildfire smoke. Scientists are sounding the alarm for change if the world wants to breathe clean air in the future.