Our environment underpins our health, economy, and quality of life. Climate change, pollution, fossil fuel dependence, and outdated infrastructure threaten our future and place an unfair burden on coming generations. I will advocate for environmental progress in the face of a Federal Government hostile to environmental protection and climate science, including:

• Protecting our water resources by investing in farming and urban water-conservation infrastructure.

• Abolishing any limitations on xeriscaping, including by HOAs, and ensuring that conservative water usage is rewarded by revisiting water pricing tiers across the state.

• Reducing urban heat temperatures by greening our communities, particularly those historically marginalized from such efforts because they live in segregated, poorer, or historically industrial neighborhoods.

• Reducing fossil fuel use by heavily investing in public transportation and multi-modal infrastructure, including increasing fast, efficient, cheap or free busing, and building out sidewalks and bike lanes.

• Funding passenger rail projects up the front range and to Boulder.

• Ending subsidies for fossil fuel extraction, closing coal-powered plants, and banning fracking.

• Bringing green infrastructure technologies to historically underserved communities, including renters and multi-family unit housing.

• Empowering state and local oversight for enforcement of environmental laws and regulations as the federal government steps back, including increasing financial penalties for corporate environmental malfeasance.