A community movement in Denver puts longtime polluters on notice and wins new protections for residents.

The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Sierra Club, the Colorado Latino Forum, the Chaffee Park Neighborhood Association, and the Elyria Swansea Neighborhood Association, represented by Earthjustice, reached a settlement agreement on Dec. 20, 2017, in a July 2017 lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on the Central 70 Project.

El acuerdo de conciliación se enfoca en brindar beneficios a las comunidades de Globeville, Elyria y Swansea, que incluyen un estudio de salud de la comunidad, monitoreo del aire, paisajismo y divulgación comunitaria.

The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Sierra Club, the Colorado Latino Forum, the Chaffee Park Neighborhood Association, and the Elyria Swansea Neighborhood Association, represented by Earthjustice, reached a settlement agreement in a July 2017 lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on the Central 70 Project. This settlement resolves the last remaining legal challenge to CDOT’s Central 70 Project, which broke ground in August 2018.

Como parte del acuerdo, CDOT contribuirá con $ 550,000 para un estudio de salud que proporcionará una mejor comprensión de los resultados de salud pública en los vecindarios de Globeville, Elyria y Swansea.

Agreement focuses on providing benefits to the Globeville, Elyria and Swansea communities, including a community health study, air monitoring, landscaping, and community outreach

Residents are pushing back against the Suncor refinery’s attempt to evade pollution reporting requirements in their Denver neighborhood.

In the matter of: Modification to Operating Permit No. 96OPAD120, Issued to Suncor Energy (U.S.A.), Inc. – Commerce City Refinery, Plants 1 & 3, Issued by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

The Suncor refinery in the Denver-metro area is one of the largest sources of air pollution. Earthjustice working with numerous local organizations have submitted comments on a series of permit modifications that could further increase the pollution burden in the surrounding communities.

Querella sobre Derechos Civiles sigue pendiente con el Departamento de Transporte

Civil rights complaint still pending with U.S. Department of Transportation

Environmental, social and economic impacts disparately affect longstanding Latino neighborhoods

These civil rights violations stem from the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (“CDOT”) adoption of a Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (“STIP”) on May 19, 2016 that will result in disparate and severe environmental and economic impacts on the predominantly Latino communities of Elyria-Swansea and Globeville, which lie in the path of the proposed expansion of Interstate I-70 (“I-70”) through north Denver.1 CDOT is a recipient of federal funds and prohibited from taking actions that have a discriminatory impact on citizens on the basis of their race, color, and national origin.

Decision to triple the width of I-70 through Elyria-Swansea would disproportionately harm predominantly Latino communities