East Colfax neighborhood chosen for Colorado’s first environmental equity study

East Colfax neighborhood chosen for Colorado’s first environmental equity study

The East Colfax neighborhood in Aurora will be the first community in Colorado to receive a state-sponsored grant to study how pollution, extreme heat and other environmental factors affect people’s health and quality of life. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Friday that East Colfax would be its first-ever Environmental Equity and Cumulative Impact Analysis recipient. The department’s Office of Environmental Jus…