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Senator John Hickenlooper Discusses Bipartisan Permitting Reform and ARPA-E's Role in Energy Innovation

Published May 31, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:24

Water focused science is key for us in Colorado and the drought prone West. Just because if you can't measure something, you're not going to be able to measure to manage it. And yet We've seen severe cuts at the USGS. The threat in this essential work and the integrity of these long term data, data resources. and that data, keeping that data in place is critical. Can you make that. Are you willing to say absolutely. (05:24–05:34)

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Asserts that there have been severe cuts at the USGS threatening essential work and data integrity.

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