EPA, state reach settlement with HighPoint over emissions
DENVER — HighPoint Operating Corp. will pay $3.55 million in a settlement agreement reached with federal and state environmental regulators over emissions from the company’s oil and gas tanks along the Front Range.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had filed a lawsuit against HighPoint in U.S. District Court in Denver, Friday, alleging that HighPoint violated the Clean Air Act by not properly controlling emissions from its tanks in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, including tanks in Adams and Weld counties.
Settlement of the lawsuit — first reported by the Denver Business Journal…
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