Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Governor John Hickenlooper today secured $20.2 million in Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) funds for wildfire recovery projects...
Bennet Makes Case to Maintain EPA Methane Standards Ahead of Hearing in Denver Tomorrow
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today held a press call ahead of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public hearing on its proposed rollback of national methane...
Bennet, Gardner Call for Additional Funding to Ensure Effective Responses to Massive Wildfires
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D) and Cory Gardner (R) today joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in requesting funding to modernize firefighting assets so the...
Bennet to Trump Administration: Don’t Weaken Clean Car Standards
DENVER, CO — Today, as the comment period closes on a proposed rule to roll back fuel economy emission standards, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet opposed the Trump administration’s proposal and...
Bennet Leads Effort to Halt EPA Methane Standards Roll Back
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the public comment period that began this week for a proposal to weaken methane standards, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet led 21 Senate colleagues in a letter...
Senate Passes Bennet Provision to Protect Watersheds from Invasive Species
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet secured a provision to protect Colorado’s watersheds from invasive species in the 2018 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which passed...
Six Bennet Bills Approved By Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today approved six bills sponsored by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet. Bennet Reaction: “Today we moved one step closer...
Bennet, McCain Bill to Establish Conservation Service Corps Moves Forward in Senate
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today approved the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Act. With the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), U.S. Senator...
Bennet Statement on LWCF Expiration
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement after funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) expired at midnight last night. “The...
Bennet on BLM Methane Rule Repeal: Only Harm for Colorado
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) announcement rolling back the Methane and Waste...
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