Public Service Company is finally acknowledging that their customers, and all Coloradans, want cleaner energy. CoPIRG will continue to monitor the PSCo's proposal to ensure that it is fair to residential rate payers and that it abides by existing environmental protections. Two of the most dangerous and common air pollutants, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides form fine particle soot. This soot aggravates respiratory illness, triggers asthma attacks and, in the most severe cases, causes premature deaths.
Respiratory disease is the fourth leading cause of death in Colorado.
Over 470,000 children under the age of 13 in Colorado live in areas with levels of pollution shown to have adverse health impacts. The increase in asthma related deaths in Colorado over the last ten years is more than twice the national average. My bottom line is that I want my children to be able to breathe. NOx 170,017,825 lbs. Lead 16,568 lbs.