Meetings Kick Off

As the ozone alert season officially ends, efforts to cut ozone pollution in the Denver metro area are getting underway.

The effort is getting a kick-off on October 3rd, with the first ozone stakeholder meeting scheduled in Thornton.

We know, the words "stakeholder meeting" are enough to make many of us doze off, but these meetings are going to be more than idle chatter. Anyone who needs clean air, which is probably everyone, has a stake in this effort and has every right to be involved in these meetings.

We're not going to lie. There probably will be some technical jargon thrown around and probably a dozen or so industry lawyers there, but don't let that discourage you. Clean air shouldn't be about jargon, it should be about our health, and we can help make it that way. Also, someone's got to remind the industry lawyers that their polluting clients really do have a responsibility to safeguard public health. This isn't trivial, with our children's health on the line, it's our future at stake.

The fun is really kicking off now.