{"id":3569,"date":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/uncategorized\/us-house-natural-resources-committee-marks-up-recovering-americas-wildlife-act-bill-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"us-house-natural-resources-committee-marks-up-recovering-americas-wildlife-act-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/us-house-natural-resources-committee-marks-up-recovering-americas-wildlife-act-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee passes Recovering America&#8217;s Wildlife Act bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>On April 7, 2022 the US Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee passed the Recovering America&#8217;s Wildlife Act bill on a bi-partisan 15-5 vote.\u00a0 This strong vote is a tremendous step forward. Next steps are the Senate Floor and House floor!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier: On January 19, 2022, the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Recovering America&#8217;s Wildlife Act bill (HR2773) and marked it up in a bi-partisan 29-15 vote. Co-sponsor Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) noted that she intends to continue working to find funds to offset the cost. Colorado&#8217;s Reps. Neguse and DeGette are co-sponsors of the bill and voted in favor. So far, there are 151 co-sponsors in the House. Next stop, presumably, is the House Floor. The Senate version, on which Sen. Hickenlooper is a co-sponsor, provides for an offset.<\/p>\n<p>The Recovering America&#8217;s Wildlife Act would bring approximately $26 million annually to Colorado for the implementation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpw.state.co.us\/aboutus\/Pages\/StateWildlifeActionPlan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Wildlife Action Plan<\/a>, which outlines priorities for protecting threatened species and restoring critical habitat throughout the state. Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state&#8217;s roughly 960 wildlife species.<\/p>\n<p>CWF has long supported this essential wildlife conservation funding bill to safeguard species of greatest conservation need in our state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 7, 2022 the US Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee passed the Recovering America&#8217;s Wildlife Act bill on a bi-partisan 15-5 vote.\u00a0 This strong vote is a tremendous step forward. Next steps are the Senate Floor and House floor! Earlier: On January 19, 2022, the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee held &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}