The Colorado Sun: The Environmental Protection Agency has backed off requirements that Colorado make polluters’ records easily available to the public and environmental watchdogs, saying the state deserves more time to object. 

Previously, the EPA had rejected portions of Colorado’s State Implementation Plan for complying with Clean Air Act limits on ozone, which the northern Front Range counties have been violating for years. The EPA requires such plans from states if they want to avoid sanctions for failing the limits for toxic ozone. 

The EPA published in the Federal Register on Wednesday a notice saying it was putting a hold on its partial disapproval of Colorado’s plan until June 1, to give the state health department more time to appeal. That means the “federal implementation plans and sanctions clocks” won’t restart until June 2. 

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