As we fight climate change, reform our outdated transportation systems and work to clean our air, special attention must be paid to our frontline communities. Where highways divide neighborhoods; factories and refineries operate near lower income communities; and people of color experience greater health impacts.
Learn more about what these communities face every day and what we are doing around issues of equity, environmental justice, greenhouse gases (ghg) and other pollutants that hurt our most vulnerable communities.
Issue in Focus: Equity
- May 10, 2022
[DENVER, CO] – With only days left in the legislative session, advocates are calling on the legislature to follow in the actions of the City of Fort Collins last month and pass two House Bills (HBs) that would strengthen clean building codes across the state.
- March 18, 2022
Arguing that the Polis Administration’s unnecessary delay in considering new rules to clean up truck
pollution will only lead to more harm to families and communities in disproportionately impacted areas of
Colorado, a coalition of environmental justice, conservation, local government and other groups today
formally petitioned the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) to consider an Advanced
Clean Trucks rule and a low NOx rule this spring.
- March 4, 2022
From heat to wind, hail to snow, more and more often we hear the words “severe” or “record-breaking” when we ask “What’s the weather going to be?”
- October 1, 2021
Policymakers at the Department of Transportation have a unique opportunity to put Colorado on the national map to better account for greenhouse gas emissions, increase the number of EVs and reduce how much we drive – all things that will help CLEAN THE AIR.
- September 16, 2021
A move by the state watchdog Office of Consumer Counsel will expand the powers of this office, allowing it to intervene on behalf of Coloradans in areas like climate change, career changes for energy workers and environmental justice for pollution-impacted communities.
- August 20, 2021
“Choking on ozone spikes, losing favorite hiking spots like Hanging Lake, sweating through fall school days — climate change is now.”