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Winds Carry Pollution to Colorado's Alpine Lakes, Scientist Says
A scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, [Diane McKnight] discovered that nitrogen pollution at Green Lakes, at the headwaters of Boulder Creek northwest of Nederland, doubled from 1984 to 1994. \"The data show the levels of nitrogen in the watershed have been steadily increasing for the past 20 years,\" said McKnight, who presented her findings Wednesday to the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C. \"It's because of upslope winds that deposit nitrogen constituents in these lakes.\" McKnight's finding isn't unique. Another scientist, Alex Wolfe of the University of Alberta, has documented similar chemical shifts in lakes on the eastern slope of the Continental Divide through Rocky Mountain National Park.
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EPA Clean-Air Status in Sight; Denver's Turnaround Would Be a First
Citing major progress in the fight against the particulate air pollution that creates the infamous brown cloud, the EPA proposed Thursday to take the first steps toward declaring Denver a clean- air city. Convinced that air pollution was gagging Denver's attempts to attract business, Mayor Federico Pena, Gov. Dick Lamm and Richard Fleming's Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce joined in the mid- 1980s to declare war on the brown cloud and associated pollution problems, which cause health trouble for infants, the elderly, and people with heart and respiratory ailments. On Thursday, the EPA asked for 30 days of public comment on plans to remove Denver from its national bad-air list for particulate air pollution. To win EPA acceptance, state government must prove that metro Denver will obey national air quality standards for years to come. The EPA is scheduled to rule on the state's clean-air bid by the November election.
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Senate Candidates from Colorado Differ on Medicare Prescription- Drug Plan
May 18--Republican Sen. Wayne Allard and Democratic challenger Tom Strickland dueled Thursday over whose plan would provide the best prescription drug benefit to seniors on Medicare. Allard endorsed spending $300 billion over 10 years on new government medicine coverage; Strickland endorsed spending $400 billion over 10 years. Both Allard and Strickland said they want to find a way to appeal to a core political constituency without offending Colorado's traditional sense of fiscal conservatism.
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Chemical Used to Protect Grain from Rodents Now Taints Well Water in Midwest
Frankfort is one of 115 towns that the USDA has admitted contaminating -- so far. No one at the USDA knows where the pollution stops. Though USDA officials say that as many as 4,400 rural facilities were part of the program, the agency has yet to test most. In fact, the agency can't even say how many have been tested for carbon tetrachloride, which the Centers for Disease Control classifies as a probable carcinogen. The USDA says it's doing all it can with a limited budget. A 1960 USDA memo listed 2,185 Commodity Credit Corp. silos with more than 8 million bushels of grain in Colorado. Many of those silos no longer exist, and the USDA has screened few former grain- storage sites for possible pollution.
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EPA Model for Toxic-Gas Cleanup Depends on Faulty Analysis of Denver Apartment
The national EPA consultant also changed nine variables in the model that EPA typically won't let regulators alter. Later that month, a Denver EPA hydrogeologist, Helen Dawson, released a study showing that three states adopted toxic-gas standards so lenient that they often fail to protect public health. Michigan, Connecticut and Massachusetts all used the EPA model to set their pollution standards. The January 2000 study was conducted by EPA consultant Craig Mann. He died last year, and EPA officials said last week they were unfamiliar with many details of the review.
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Michigan Admits Toxic-Gas Error
EPA officials had been citing Michigan as a national leader in the fight against toxic gas, which seeps into homes from underground pollution that leaks from hundreds of factories, auto shops and dry cleaners. The Post reported in January that state and federal regulators often downplay or ignore the problem, often by using a computer model that repeatedly has underestimated health risks.
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Watchdog Says EPA in Coverup about Toxic Gas
National EPA Administrator Christie Whitman proposed last year to fold the ombudsman office into the Inspector General Office, but the ombudsman persuaded a federal judge last week to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the switch until a February hearing. [Martin] became a hero to many south Denver residents for forcing EPA to reverse its decision to leave radioactive waste at the Shattuck Superfund site in their neighborhood. After the Post series this month, the EPA ombudsman vowed to launch a national toxic-gas probe that would be the \"No. 1 priority\" of the ombudsman office, which independently raises issues within EPA.
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Review: Cover story: 'There was no joy in this story'
A couple of stories stuck with me. One kid, Daniel Mauser, ended up in the library because he had no one to have lunch with, and he got killed. It didn't make any sense. Why would they want to get even with him?
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Laughing teens kill 25: Students on 'suicide mission' terrorize Colorado school
By 3:45 p.m., bullets still rang out inside the school. Gunmen earlier were locked in a shootout with police. While more than 200 law enforcement officers and four SWAT teams tried to stop the gunmen and evacuate wounded high school students, paramedics frantically treated victims in makeshift triage units on the front lawns of houses outside the suburban Jefferson County school. Jenni LaPlante, 18, said one of the suspected shooters was calm Tuesday morning at a before-school bowling class. She said the student was smart. \"He knew all the answers. If we were reading Shakespeare, he would know the hidden meaning,\" LaPlante said. \"I've never seen them lash out at anyone,\" LaPlante said. \"But I would say, 'Why do you guys wear all that German stuff? Are you Nazis?' Color Photo: George Kochaniec, Associated Press / Students hug outside Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo, following the shooting spree on Tuesday. ; Color Photo: George Kochaniec, Associated Press/Rocky Mountain News / Students weep at a triage centre near Columbine High School where as many as 25 of their classmates were killed on Tuesday in Littleton, Colo. ;
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