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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced legislation today to curb the large amounts of methane pollution and waste that are being released into the atmosphere each year by oil and gas producers across the country.
She's tilting at windmills as long as Republicans control the U.S. Senate and Donald Trump is in the White House, but U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is trying to undo some of the president's climate policies.
The Democrat from Denver introduced legislation Tuesday to reduce methane waste emissions from oil and gas operations.
Called the Methane Waste Prevention Act, the bill would require oil and gas producers to capture 85% of methane emissions on public lands in the law's first three years and 99% within five years.
Two of Colorado's Democratic members of Congress sought answers Thursday on how to make their state more resilient to wildfires.
At a Thursday hearing of the House Natural Resources' subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands, member U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, expressed concern that wildfires will continue to damage forests in mountain areas where streams provide water to nearby communities. The U.S. Forest Service estimates 60 million Americans get their drinking water from mountain watersheds daily.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Tom Reed (R-NY), the co-chairs of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, introduced bipartisan legislation today to continue funding a key federal diabetes research program for an additional five years, and increase its annual funding from $150 million to $200 million a year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It's hard to get 378 members of Congress to agree on almost anything these days, but continuing to fund a special diabetes research program that's working to find a cure to the disease seems to be one of the few things that nearly every member of the U.S. House is willing to support.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) introduced legislation today to change the way that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, calculates the potential long-term cost savings of preventive health care, such as increased screenings or changes in people's behavior.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Following is a comment from U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on the House Judiciary Committee's vote today to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, a move she supports and will vote for when it reaches the full House:
Faced with population growth and a booming tourism and recreation industry, Colorado congressional leaders are pushing to protect more than 1 million acres of land as wilderness with the help of legislation to be introduced Tuesday that would cover 33 parcels, from high desert plateaus to river canyons in the western half of the state.
‘This may finally be the year that we get this done,' DeGette says
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) unveiled new legislation today to designate more than 740,000 acres in 33 areas of Colorado as federally-protected wilderness.
"Colorado's public lands are what set us apart from the rest of the country," DeGette said at a news conference Monday to announce the plan. "They are the reason why so many of us are so proud to call Colorado home, and they are the reason why so many people from across the country flock here to visit each year."