Colorado’s three largest oil and gas producers were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that minimized the levels of a wide variety of pollutants, including arsenic and barium in the soil and benzene in groundwater.
The seven notices of alleged violation were issued by the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission to the operating subsidiaries of Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and Civitas Resources. The companies have 28 days to respond.
The lab reports were falsified by two environmental contractors — Eagle Environmental Consulting, Inc. and Tasman Geosciences — and came to light last year…