Two environmental groups are suing the Polis administration for missing air pollution permit deadlines and allegedly giving two metro Denver fossil fuel terminals “a free pass to pollute.”
The lawsuit, filed Sept. 3 in in Adams County District Court, says the state’s Air Pollution Control Division has missed key deadlines to issue or renew permits required under the Clean Air Act to operate Magellan Pipeline’s Aurora terminal bulk fuel and tank compound, and Crestone Peak Resources’ oil and gas processing plant in east Aurora.
Finishing the initial permit for Crestone should have happened in April, according to state and EPA rules, and a renewal for Magellan Pipeline should have been finished in June, the lawsuit claims. Writing the rules and requiring compliance “would likely reduce pollution and improve air quality” for the Front Range, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, which joined with 350 Colorado in the lawsuit…