Bennet to Trump Administration: Don’t Weaken Clean Car Standards

Administration’s proposed changes would affect Colorado’s authority to adopt low fuel economy emission standards

Today, as the comment period closes on a proposed rule to roll back fuel economy emission standards, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet opposed the Trump administration’s proposal and called for an end to its challenge of states’ authority to set their own standards.

Bennet, Colleagues Ask Trump Trade Official to Explain Latest Tariff Decision that Could Hurt American Businesses

USTR previously offered specific product exclusions for American businesses that could face undue harm, but failed to do so with new tariffs

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and ten colleagues today sent a letter to the Trump administration’s lead trade official asking why the administration’s latest round of tariffs on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods did not include exclusions to protect American businesses.
Ahead of the public comment period that began this week for a proposal to weaken methane standards, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet led 21 Senate colleagues in a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to extend the public comment period for the rule and provide adequate justification for modifying the national standards.