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September 7, 2023

Lafayette, CO — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse announced $2 million in federal funding for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder’s Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) is headed to the world-leading research facility. Rep.


September 7, 2023

(The Center Square) – Two members of Congress from Colorado are continuing to press the Federal Aviation Administration and the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport about ongoing noise problems.

Joe Neguse, a Democrat representing Colorado’s 2nd District, and Brittany Pettersen, a Democrat representing the 7th District, sent a letter earlier this week to acting FAA Administrator Polly Trottenberg and airport Director Paul Anslow. They asked both entities to pursue an Airport Noise Compatibility Planning agreement to collaboratively address the concerns.


September 7, 2023

Colorado U.S. Sen Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, instrumental last month in at least temporarily derailing a massive expansion of Utah oil trains through Colorado, are now taking aim at a plan to enlarge a truck-to-rails oil transport facility on federal land west of Price, Utah.


September 7, 2023

Two Colorado Democrats on Thursday joined local governments and environmental groups in urging the federal Bureau of Land Management to undertake a full review of the proposed expansion of an oil-train terminal in eastern Utah.


September 7, 2023

Two Colorado legislators are demanding a full environmental review of a proposal to expand a Utah oil transport facility — plans they believe could endanger their state’s residents across the border.


September 7, 2023

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse and Senator Michael Bennet called on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct a full environmental review of the proposed Wildcat Loadout expansion project to account for the project’s potential impacts on Colorado’s water, land, air, and climate.


September 6, 2023

Washington, D.C. — Today, Representatives Joe Neguse (CO-02) and Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) penned a letter to the FAA and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA) urging action on aircraft noise.


September 5, 2023

Washington (CNN) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Speaker Kevin McCarthy aren’t typically aligned on many issues. But they were kindred spirits in a recent phone call on one key priority: boosting pay for wildland firefighters.

“Of course he gets it. One hundred percent,” Sinema, an independent from Arizona, said in a phone interview with CNN about McCarthy, a Republican from California. “We talked specifically about this issue and how it’s just as important in his state as it is in mine.”


September 2, 2023

Nearly all members of Colorado’s congressional delegation are again asking the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider a plan to tax state refunds.


September 1, 2023

Lafayette, CO — Today, Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO), who previously served as Executive Director of Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies, led a letter with Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) urging the Internal Revenue System (IRS) to not tax Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) refunds—as has been precedent for the past thirty years. The letter was co-signed by the members of Colorado's congressional delegation, including U.S.