Washington, D.C. - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today led six other Western senators in sending a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke urging him to extend the comment period for...
Bennet, Colleagues Press Senate Leadership to Include Bipartisan Wildfire Funding Fix in Future Disaster Aid Legislation
Washington, D.C. - With deadly fires still raging across the West, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and a bipartisan group of senators pressed Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck...
Bennet Statement on Senate Failure to Protect Arctic Refuge
Washington, D.C. -- Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Tom Udall (D-NM), today offered an amendment to the Senate budget...
Bennet Fights to Stop Republican Effort to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Edward Markey (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) were joined...
Bennet Statement on Clean Power Plan Repeal
COLORADO - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement in response to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's signing of a proposed rule to repeal the Clean Power Plan. "Once...
Bennet Statement on Interior’s Decision to Reopen Sage Grouse Plans
Washington, D.C. - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior's announcement that it will modify Greater Sage-grouse...
Colorado Leaders Express Support for Pollution Transparency Act
Washington, D.C. - Today, industry and community leaders from across Colorado expressed support for the Pollution Transparency Act, legislation introduced by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet...
Bennet, Crapo, Tester, Risch, Wyden Introduce Bill to Improve Fire Recovery and Mitigation Efforts
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jon Tester (D-MT), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) today introduced the Wildfire Mitigation Assistance Act to...
Bennet Leads Effort to Standardize the Cost of Climate Pollution
Washington, D.C. - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today led 11 colleagues in introducing the Pollution Transparency Act to standardize the metric used by federal agencies to measure the cost...
Colorado Lawmakers Request Resources to Prevent Invasive Species Infestation
Washington, D.C. - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Representative Jared Polis sent a bicameral, bipartisan letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke urging a rapid response to the...