air quality

After repeated air pollution violations, regulators ordered Prospect Energy to immediately cease operations at an oil and gas storage site north of Fort Collins, Colorado.

The World Health Organization (WHO) tightened its air-quality guidelines for the first time since 2005, hoping to spur countries toward clean energy and prevent deaths and illness caused by air pollution.

In an effort to prove oil and gas developments are not as big a contributor to the Front Range’s diminishing air quality, Crestone Peak Resources announced it will install air quality monitors at all of its horizontal hydraulic fracturing sites throughout the state.

New Mexico released data on excess greenhouse emissions from oil and gas operations to keep the public informed of the problem, as the state continues to develop stricter policies to regulate air pollution from the industry and other sources.

Mobile plume tracking, led by Colorado State University air pollution experts, is a key technology in the city of Broomfield’s ongoing Air Quality Testing Program. And it’s just one aspect of a 3-year, $1.7 million contract awarded by Broomfield last year.