The second meeting of the state's Environmental Justice Action Task Force spent hours discussing how many members it would take to include a recommendation in the final report, due in November.
arguing that because the plant is near a disproportionately impacted community in north Denver, modeling should be required, she told the task force, urging its members to recommend that the Colorado Department of Health and Environment reopen the permit immediately.
Tafoya recommended that the task force's Equity Analysis Subcommittee examine PEER's request regarding Cherokee. The facility can be seen from his mother’s front yard, and hearing that employees’ calls for modeling were ignored made him sick to his stomach, he says. Tafoya noted that representatives of disproportionately impacted communities were a voting bloc of six on some questions but that there was agreement among more members on others. One of those was the election of co-chairs to lead the task force. Tafoya earned fifteen votes and Johnston came in second, with Sheila Davis, a CDPHE representative with expertise in health equity, breaking a tie between Johnston and either Renee M. Chacon or Michael Sapp, who were also nominated for co-chair.
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