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Bennet Joins Bipartisan Letter to House, Senate Armed Services Committee Leadership Urging Inclusion of PFAS Provisions in Final FY21 NDAA

Oct 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 20 Senate colleagues joined a bipartisan letter to Senate and House Armed Services Committee leadership urging the inclusion of several provisions in the final fiscal year (FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent and address contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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Bennet, Bicameral Colleagues Highlight Dangerous New EPA Methane Rule

Lawmakers Highlight How Dangerous Rollback Increases Maternal Health Risks

Aug 27, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 30 Members of Congress in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing their deep concern with a new rule that would weaken the EPA’s ability to limit dangerous methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.
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Bennet, Senate Democrats’ Climate Committee Release New Report on Climate Action, Plan to Build Clean Economy for American People

Report Outlines How Climate Action Will Grow the Economy, Improve Lives for Americans Across the Country

Aug 25, 2020
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and members of the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis released a comprehensive report titled, “The Case for Climate Action: Building a Clean Economy for the American People.”
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Bennet Joins Carper, 55 Colleagues in Bicameral Letter to White House Demanding Release of Public Records about Fast-Tracked Projects

Members: “These reports contain information on how billions of taxpayer dollars will be spent on projects impacting the health and safety of their communities… By keeping these reports from the public, this administration is concealing its own response to the economic crisis brought on by the COVID

Aug 07, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and 55 of their Congressional colleagues in urging the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to release public records about the Trump Administration’s implementation of the president’s executive order signed June 4, 2020.
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Bennet, Colleagues Criticize Trump Changes That Substantially Understate the Costs of Climate Change, Putting America’s Economic Health at Serious Risk

GAO Report Released by Senators Found That Administration Has No Plan to Address Recommendations from Leading Experts

Jul 15, 2020
In a report released by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and six U.S. Senate colleagues, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal government’s core measure of the costs of climate change, the social cost of carbon, mean “current federal estimates [of climate effects] . . . are about 7 times lower than the prior federal estimates.”
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Bennet Joins Bicameral Call for Investing in Clean Energy Workforce in COVID-19 Economic Recovery Packages

Lawmakers’ Letter Comes As Nearly 600,000 Clean Energy Workers Have Experienced Job Loss As a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jun 03, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined a bicameral group of his colleagues in a letter signed by 57 Members of Congress urging congressional leaders to prioritize a clean energy recovery plan in upcoming economic relief and recovery packages to deal with the impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.
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Bennet Requests Action on Energy Tax Policy Priorities

Bennet Priorities Languishing in Committee are Critical to Addressing the Climate Crisis

Feb 13, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and 27 of his Democratic colleagues requested Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) take action on languishing energy tax policy priorities to help address the growing threat of the climate crisis.
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