by Sam Killmeyer 350 Northern Colorado (350NoCo) was awarded half a million dollars through an EPA grant to fund an air quality monitoring program in Greeley. The grant is the largest in 350 Colorado’s history and will be used to support a mobile air quality monitoring system that will move between two public schools, Bella Romero Academy and Tointon Academy, with nearby fracking wells.

Stories define us. It is through stories that we remember who we are, who our ancestors were, and how we recognize the place we call home. For hundreds of generations, Indigenous peoples have woven stories in relationship with these lands we now call Colorado. These stories are beautiful, and they are deep, and they are important.

350 Colorado supports the draft EPA rules to reduce methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations across the U.S. According to the International Energy Agency, to fight climate change most effectively, we need to reduce methane quickly in the near term – 75% by 2030 –  because it has a warming potential at least 80 times greater than carbon dioxide.