Legislative Agenda
This year Environment Colorado supported 7 bills, and opposed 1, to advance clean air, clean water, clean energy, and open spaces and a livable climate.
If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.
Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.
This year Environment Colorado supported 7 bills, and opposed 1, to advance clean air, clean water, clean energy, and open spaces and a livable climate.
We continue our financial support of Environment Colorado and Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center because ... [of] their research and policy branch, ...[and]... their intelligent, informed, committed advocacy at the Colorado Legislature.Phyllis Updike, RN, PhD, Member, Environment Colorado
Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution
EPA lists two toxic PFAS chemicals under Superfund law
Tiny plastic pellets, also called nurdles, pose big problems for local waterways.
An estimated ten trillion pellets enter oceans each year
Would reduce toxic “forever chemicals” in products like cookware, dental floss, menstruation products and ski wax