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Returning this week from the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse said his second trip to a U.N. Climate Change Conference went a lot better than his first, to COP25 in Madrid, Spain, two years ago.

“Boy, what a change two years can make,” Neguse told reporters in a virtual press conference on Friday.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on Friday stressed the need to pass the climate policies in the proposed $1.75-trillion budget bill after returning from the U.N. climate summit in Scotland.

Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.

In the wake of these fires, our communities were left with a massive recovery price tag and dwindling federal resources to restore severely burned soils, rebuild homes, protect watersheds and prepare for future wildfires that we know will follow this year’s unprecedented drought and heat.

For the first time in four years, Ingrid Encalada Latorre will get to go to the park with her three children, walk the aisles of the grocery store or go on a hike and take in mountain views.

Encalada Latorre, a native of Peru, has been living in sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder with her three American-born children since 2017. If she stepped outside the church, at 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., she faced the possibility of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Suzanne Fountain was shopping in aisle 10 of the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive on March 22, when a gunman opened fire.

Fountain, 59, was one of 10 people who died that day.

“A beacon was put out that day. It was absolutely senseless,” her sister Jen Macaskill said. “She was grocery shopping. We all go grocery shopping. Why is it that we can’t be safe in the grocery store?”

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse will introduce legislation in the House Thursday to prohibit people convicted of violent misdemeanors from purchasing a firearm for five years, a measure the Lafayette Democrat said could help prevent tragedies like the Boulder King Soopers massacre from happening again.

Bringing Republicans and Democrats together at this hyper-partisan moment to pass substantial legislation has been enormously challenging. But it is still possible.

As congressional Democrats negotiate cuts from President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better package, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse announced his 21st Century Climate Conservation Corps is not on the chopping block.