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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Colorado Newsletter for Friday March 22, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Campaign Launched to Defend Colorado's Clean Energy Progress and Hold Oil and Gas Companies Accountable
DENVER, Colorado, March 22 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: A coalition of environmental organizations filed ballot language today to protect Colorado's progress on climate change, renewable energy, and clean air and to hold oil and gas corporations accountable. These measures were filed in direct response to Chevron, Occidental, other multinational oil and gas corporations, and right-wing organization Advance Colorado moving forward seven different ballot measures that wo  more

Colorado Public Radio: 'Quien Are We?' Podcast on Latinx Experience Returns for Season Two
CENTENNIAL, Colorado, March 22 -- Colorado Public Radio issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Colorado Public Radio today announced its podcast "Quien Are We?" about "what it means to be Latinx, Latino, Hispanic, Chicana -- or however you identify," will return April 5 with six new episodes. "When we finished the first season of 'Quien Are We?,' we knew that we were not done telling the powerful stories of Latino people from all over the country," said Andrew Villegas, an edito  more

Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Mad Capital's $50 Million Perennial Fund II To Scale U.S. Regenerative Organic Agriculture
BOULDER, Colorado, March 21 -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release: Mad Capital launched its Perennial Fund II (PFII) to provide farmers in the United States with tailored loans that help them transition to regenerative organic farmland while also increasing farmer profits. PFII, which is targeting $50 million, has received early commitments from Builders Vision, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, Zellis Family Foundation, Zarpet Family Foundatio  more

S.T.O.P. Welcomes CO Senate's Vote To Ban Excited Delirium, Renews Call For NY Ban
NEW YORK, March 22 -- The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, welcomes the Colorado Senate's vote to ban the use of "excited delirium," a debunked term misused to justify excessive force by police, and urges the Governor to sign the associated bill into law. The Colorado Senate's vote comes after the state's House of Repres  more

U.S. Travel Announces New Appointees to Executive Board, Governance Committee
WASHINGTON, March 21 [Category: Travel] -- The U.S. Travel Association issued the following news release: U.S. Travel Association announced today the appointment of two new members to its executive board and three new members to its governance committee. Diane Shober, executive director, Wyoming Office of Tourism and Victoria "Vic" Isley, president and CEO, Explore Asheville and the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, join the association's executive board. Dan Surette, chief sales   more