Fort Collins residents are no strangers to waking up with scratchy throats from poor air quality. Fort Collins was recently ranked the 17th-worst city in terms of high ozone days, according to a new report from the American Lung Association, bypassing its 2020 placement of 19th-worst.Â
“The primary sources contributing to ground-level ozone pollution are oil and gas and transportation,” Lea Schneider, Larimer County environmental health planner, wrote in an email to The Collegian.
Jeffrey Pierce, a professor at Colorado State University's department of atmospheric science, explained that nitrogen oxide from car pollution mixes with volatile organic compounds leaked from the oil and gas industry in Colorado on hot days, creating the ozone we experience in Fort Collins.
On Sept. 18, the Hughes Land Back initiative held a gathering and press conference to address the deconstruction of a sweat lodge that was used by Native American people.Â
“Our fires...
Fort Collins City Council met Sept. 14 to conduct a work session that discussed the proposed 2022 City budget.Â
Tuesday’s meeting was the first of three planned work sessions to discuss the budget,...
The City of Fort Collins and the Arbor Day Foundation have teamed up on a program to increase tree coverage.
The Community Canopy Program will provide 350 Fort Collins residents with $25 trees. The...
The Sept. 7 Fort Collins City Council meeting addressed local marijuana codes, staff reports and had public participation. This meeting was followed by a work session that focused on council priorities.
The...
The most recent City Council work session Aug. 31 discussed the recommended 2022 budget, the northeast Fort Collins development and the future norms and rules for council meetings.Â
“We are no...
Colorado State University, the City of Fort Collins and third-party Cottonwood Lands and Farms entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Aug. 20 that resolves some uncertainty with the former...
Editor's Note: This article originally stated that the seven-day infection rate had doubled over the past two weeks. According to Jared Olson with the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment,...
Update: July 28, 4 p.m.
According to a July 28 press release from the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, all search efforts in the Poudre Canyon following the Black Hollow Flood have been suspended...
Mosquitoes in Larimer County have tested positive for West Nile virus for the first time this season, according to a July 20 press release from the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment....
The Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission has completed preliminary drawings for how Colorado should be divided for federal and state representation and is now heading to every county to hear...
The phrase “out of the closet and into the streets” echoed through Old Town Fort Collins on Friday; it was a popular mantra among the demonstrators at the 3rd annual NoCo Pride March. The march...
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