Companies could no longer drill and frack for 90 days before getting an air permit and some well sites could no longer go for more than a year without checks on emission-producing equipment under the latest round of proposals to reform Colorado's oil and gas regulations. The state Air Quality Control Commission was set Tuesday to open three days of hearings on rules that will help implement a sweeping overhaul of Colorado's oil and gas regulations. Among the directives in Senate Bill 19-181 is the reduction of pollution from oil and gas sites to carry out the focus on putting public health, safety and the environment first when managing the fossil-fuel industry. The air-quality hearings are starting just as the Environmental Protection Agency has declared that several counties in the Denver metro area and the northern Front Range are in "serious" violation of federal ozone levels . The change from the classification of "moderate," announced Monday, will bring tighter restrictions on emissions that contribute to ground-level ozone pollution, including those from oil and gas sites. Ways to cut emissions from tanks, pipelines and other equipment at well sites were already in the works after approval of SB181. "We're looking at… Read full this story
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