Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about pollution

Denver refinery through brown cloud of pollution

It’s Fair to Compare Denver’s Air Pollution to Beijing

By Andy Bosselman | Mar 8, 2019 | 15 Comments

On Wednesday we ran a story, Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing. Several critiques of the piece showed up in its comments section and on Reddit. This post responds to three. 1) The pollution is the fault of an inversion layer, a weather pattern that traps particulate matter. The weather did not create […]

Downtown Denver viewed through the haze of Colorado's "brown cloud" on March 6. Photo: Andy Bosselman

Breaking: Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing

By Andy Bosselman | Mar 6, 2019 | 44 Comments

Today from downtown Denver, the peaks of the Rocky Mountain foothills were barely visible through the brown cloud of pollution that covered the region with an unhealthy level of fine particulate matter.

Denver has changed since 2010, but how commuters get to and from work really hasn't.

Mayor Hancock’s Transportation Policy Is Failing to Achieve His Climate Goals

By David Sachs | Jun 28, 2018 | 6 Comments

The Hancock administration is failing to attain the goals for walking, biking, and transit laid out in its climate plans.