The Colorado Sun: The Environmental Protection Agency is letting Colorado air pollution officials off the hook for making records available to members of the public who might want to help police corporate rule breaking, two state environmental groups say. 

The federal agency had previously held up approval of a key “state implementation plan” detailing how Colorado will stop northern Front Range violations of EPA ozone caps. The EPA in delaying approval had  agreed with environmental groups that Colorado should more frequently demand records from polluters and make them easily accessible. 

But Colorado pushed back hard, arguing that its proposed system provided “effective and reasonable” access to anyone who wanted it, and that the EPA’s initial demands went above and beyond what the agency was requiring of other states. Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office sued the EPA in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as required by the Clean Air Act, to stop the demands for expanded open records. 

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