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On August 4, Senator Tom Udall and Representative Joe Neguse introduced proposed legislation — the “Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act”, or (PACTPA). This bill would overhaul U.S. pesticide rules, ultimately mandating new rules to protect people and the environment.
PAN Senior Scientist Margaret Reeves says it best:
Larimer County will participate in a virtual job and resource fair next week to help connect those navigating a job search amid COVID-19.
Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado, the job fair will be completely online and include the Boulder and Larimer workforce centers. Neguse represents Larimer and Boulder counties in the second congressional district of Colorado.
The sessions will begin at 3 p.m. Aug. 12.
Legislation introduced today would ban or restrict scores of the most toxic pesticides, introduce health-protective restrictions on pesticide use and registration, and create new safety protections for farmworkers – the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s pesticide law in nearly 25 years.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse is a whittler when it comes to Colorado and elections.
The fast-rising freshman from Boulder County passed an amendment Friday that would eliminate the usual 5% match for federal election dollars. That comes after he tucked the Secure Our Elections Act into the Heroes Act relief package that passed the House in May.
Sometimes, it’s the little lies that are the most telling.
Watching the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google face a filleting in front of the House antitrust panel on Wednesday, I kept a running list of the little half-truths they told.
If I only had a dollar for every time a big tech CEO said they cared deeply about our privacy.
Today, Congressman Joe Neguse joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva and bill sponsor Congressman Joe Cunningham for a bill enrollment ceremony for the Great American Outdoors Act. The legislation would fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million and invest funds to address the over $20 billion public lands maintenance backlog.
When the Trump administration updated its travel-ban list to include the East African nation of Eritrea this winter, the battle that U.S. Representative Joe Neguse had been waging against previous iterations of Trump's travel ban suddenly became personal.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, who represents eastern Eagle County, as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
The CORE Act, which would protect large swaths of Colorado public lands as wilderness, has already passed the House as a stand-alone piece of legislation. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, will now try to get a CORE Act amendment passed in the upper chamber. His office issued this press release on Tuesday:
COLORADO, USA — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff on public buildings statewide until sunset Saturday to honor Rep. John Lewis of Georgia.
Lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and became a 17-term United States congressman, died on Friday. He was 80.
Many Colorado leaders paid tribute to Lewis after his passing.
Washington D.C.— Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO) chaired a House Natural Resources Committee virtual roundtable discussion this week, highlighting the economic benefits of wildlife preservation and the lack of diversity in the outdoors scenes, using Colorado as a case study and featuring panelists from Colorado in the discussion.