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.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and 31 of their colleagues in introducing the Clean Economy Act, legislation that would put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement applauding news that the Arkansas Valley Conduit will receive $28 million of Bureau of Reclamation funding to begin construction on the water diversion and storage project in the lower Arkansas Valley, which would bring clean drinking water to an estimated 50,000 Coloradans.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released a discussion draft of legislation to establish a new tax credit for farmers and ranchers, state and local governments, and tribes, to sequester carbon in agriculture, forestry, rangelands, and wetlands.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet announced today he will join the new, bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus formed by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D- Del.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.).

Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) introduced a major Senate resolution to set a national goal of conserving at least 30 percent of the land and 30 percent of the ocean within the territory of the United States by 2030.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to reiterate concerns expressed by the State of Colorado, local governments, and a diverse group of local stakeholders with the proposed Resource Management Plan (PRMP) recently put forward by the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO).

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement after supporting a resolution that would overturn a Trump Administration anti-environment rule and reinstate the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced that the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has been awarded a grant to conduct the El Paso County component of the national study to examine the relationship between exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), chemicals that have contaminated drinking water sources in Colorado and across the country, and certain health outcomes.

This week, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined a group of his Senate colleagues in writing a pair of letters to corporate signatories to the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for the major companies and financial firms to wield their influence to combat runaway deforestation in the Amazon.