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Webinar: “Northern Colorado Air Quality”
Former PSR CO Chair Cory Carroll, MD, Atmospheric Scientist Detlev Helmig, PhD, and Andrew Klooster Optical Gas Imaging Thermographer with EarthWorks, will present a webinar to answer the question, "Why is it, in a state celebrated for its clean mountain air, that counties in Northern Colorado have received a failing grade for their air quality in updated surveys from the American Lung Association?”
The webinar will take place on March 16 at 6:00 pm, and is sponsored by The Larimer Alliance for Health, Safety and the Environment and Colorado Rising.
Oil company hasn't replaced leaking tanks near Fort Collins despite months of complaints (The Coloradoan)
Former PSR Colorado board member, Cory Carroll, is quoted in this recent article in The Coloradoan. The article details the impacts that fugitive emissions from leaky oil and gas equipment and actively-producing operations near North Fort Collins are having on residents living in close proximity to the Prospect Energy site, and the inadequate response from State and local regulators.
Harvard University Study: Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018.
More than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested, according to new research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London. Researchers estimated that exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel emissions accounted for 18 percent of total global deaths in 2018 — a little less than 1 out of 5.
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