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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.
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The Colorado Sun editor David Krause joined us to discuss Attorney General Phil Weiser’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, plus a look back at 30 years with the Colorado Rockies.
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A new study indicates wildfires like the Marshall Fire may leave toxic particles in nearby homes. Those particles aren't easy to clean out, either.
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The American Lung Association’s new State of the Air report includes a number of Western cities among those most impacted by ozone, short-term, and year-round particle pollution. They include Salt Lake City, Boise, Albuquerque and a number of front range cities in Colorado.
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A new rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency aims to reduce pollution from coal-burning power plants and factories in nearly two dozen states to improve the air quality for people living downwind—a prevalent issue in the Mountain West.
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KUNC Investigative Reporter Scott Franz talks with Morning Edition Host Nikole Robinson Carroll about potential solutions to air quality concerns being raised in Northern Colorado.