Longmont officials join list of others in Colorado to ask for climate measures in US Budget Package

NEWS RELEASE
COLORADO COMMUNITIES FOR CLIMATE ACTION
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On Tuesday, 118 local elected officials from counties, cities and towns across the state of Colorado sent a letter to Colorado’s congressional delegation, urging them to include the strongest possible climate measures in the pending budget reconciliation package. 

The letter urges U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and U.S. Representatives Lauren Boebert, Ken Buck, Jason Crow, Diana DeGette, Doug Lamborn, Joe Neguse and Ed Perlmutter of Colorado to support the full Build Back Better reconciliation package, particularly the components that will address climate change.

“Our jurisdictions, and the millions of Colorado residents we represent, are facing the increasingly dire impacts of climate change on a daily basis,” the letter states. “We are working hard – and making progress – to reduce our own contributions to climate pollution and to improve the resilience of our communities to these changes. But there is only so much we can do at the local level and with local and state resources. Congress has an opportunity to make sure the reconciliation package makes a real difference for our economic vitality, community health, quality of life, and environmental conditions.”

Congress is considering a tax and spending package for the upcoming fiscal year that includes, under President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, provisions that would invest in reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells and mine pollution, modernizing the energy grid and water infrastructure, bringing utilities and high-speed internet to low-income communities, and creating jobs.

Colorado local governments represented on the letter include:

Adams County

Aspen

Aurora

Avon

Basalt

Boulder

Boulder County

Breckenridge

Broomfield

Carbondale

Chaffee County

Clear Creek County

Colorado Springs

Commerce City

Crested Butte

Denver

Durango

Eagle

Eagle County

Erie

Federal Heights

Fort Collins

Frisco

Gilpin County

Glenwood Springs

Golden

Grand County

Grand Junction

Gunnison County

Jefferson County

La Plata County

Lafayette

Lake County

Lakewood

Larimer County

Longmont

Louisville

Lyons

Minturn

Mountain Village

Nederland

Northglenn

Ouray County

Paonia

Pitkin County

Ridgway

Routt County

Salida

San Miguel County

Steamboat Springs

Summit County

Superior

Telluride

Thornton

Vail

Westminster

Wheat Ridge

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