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Concern that giant tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are using their digital might to shape markets unfairly took a local turn Friday as a Congressional antitrust subcommittee held a hearing in Boulder.
Rep. Joe Neguse will deliver a State of the District address at a Boulder town hall on Thursday to update his 2nd Congressional District constituents on what he’s accomplished in Congress.
The Lafayette Democrat will discuss his legislation around agriculture, affordable housing, climate change and public lands. The address will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
The national Town Hall Project on Friday recognized U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse with its "Spirit of Service" award for the freshman Democrat's innovative service town halls, which the group said "combined talk with meaningful action."
Neguse, who held 24 town halls across the 2nd Congressional District during his first year in office, asked constituents to meet up to perform volunteer work ahead of the traditional question-and-answer sessions at five of them.
Andrew Woen, a junior at Lafayette’s Peak to Peak Charter School, started working on a recycling app as a response to his fear of climate change.
His app recently won the Congressional App Challenge for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. Called “ReDetect,” it tells users what items can be recycled through image recognition and machine learning.
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – A Broomfield fourth grader could soon have a federal law named after her. Rep. Joe Neguse introduced “Ally’s Act” after receiving a letter from Ally Tumblin.
“Please help me advocate for hearing better by mandating hearing devices coverage,” the 10-year-old wrote.
Those watching Friday morning’s impeachment hearing in the 41-member House Judiciary Committee might have noticed a plastic water bottle at every representative’s seat.
To Colorado’s Joe Neguse, that represents a very obvious target in the much larger battle to address climate change.
Congressman Joe Neguse on Thursday introduced legislation proposing that general aviation airports, such as Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Boulder Municipal Airport and Northern Colorado Regional Airport, be able to self-impose restrictions relating to noise concerns.
Under current law, airports must undergo a lengthy and difficult approval process with the Federal Aviation Administration before pursuing noise-based restrictions and, as a result, very few do so successfully.
WASHINGTON — A freshman Colorado congressman, troubled by allegations of climate censorship by the Trump administration, is attempting to make it harder for political appointees to scrub scientific information from government reports.
Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) introduced legislation this month dubbed the “Stop Climate Censorship Act.” If enacted, it would require political appointees at federal agencies to provide data to back up any decisions to remove climate change content from scientific studies or press releases.
Combating climate change has long been a driving issue for Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse of Boulder. He ran on it; he was an early supporter of the Green New Deal; and he now serves on the House Select Committee on Climate Change, which held its first field hearing in Boulder this summer.
BRECKENRIDGE — The town of Breckenridge is set to add more electric buses to its fleet following a sizable grant from the Department of Transportation.
On Wednesday, Dec. 5, Congressman Joe Neguse announced a $2 million grant to help replace diesel buses in Breckenridge with battery-electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.