CrowdJustice Short Story: Fighting Coal Pollution in Colorado Springs
An abridged account of a current CrowdJustice crowdfunding case:
The pollution from the above coal fired power plant, located in the center of Colorado Springs, affects hundreds of thousands of people, and 41 schools in the path of its plume.
Three independent pollution modeling studies showed egregious violations of SO2 levels in the air: the legal limit of 75 parts per billion can damage lungs after just 5 minutes, yet the models showed levels of 112 to 525 ppb at ground level where people live (1.5 to 7 times the legal limit).
Over 500 community members signed a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency calling for strong action to be taken, but the EPA designated the pollution as “unclassifiable”. A group of concerned citizens is now fighting to have the DC Court of Appeals force the EPA to revisit this air quality designation ruling so that closer oversight might rein in the pollution the urban coal fired power plant is generating.
Learn more about the fight to reduce sulfur dioxide levels in downtown Colorado Springs.
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