John Hickenlooper in The New York Times 2019 "Meet the Candidates" series

On Gun Control: Guns make you less safe, not more

• Beto O'Rourke, Former congressman from Texas: "In an ideal world, we would listen to people instead of political action committees and the gun lobby and the NRA."
• John Hickenlooper, Former governor of Colorado: "Study after study shows that having a handgun, in most cases, makes you less safe, not more."
• Juli n Castro, Former housing secretary: "In an ideal world, people would not own handguns."
• Cory Booker, Senator from New Jersey: "As president of the United States, I'm going to bring a fight to this problem like folks have never seen before."
• Kamala Harris, Senator from California: "We need to be practical on this. We need to pass smart gun safety laws."
• Bill de Blasio, NYC Mayor: "In the ideal world, gun ownership would be treated very, very differently."

On Environment: Solve problem of disposal of high-level radioactive waste

Hickenlooper: Yes, but there has to be a stronger effort to solve the problem of disposal of high-level radioactive waste.

On Technology: Public-private partnerships for next-gen energy technology

Hickenlooper: Yes.

Q: Would you restore Obama-era climate change regulations that the Trump administration has reversed, like the Clean Power Plan, methane limits and vehicle emissions standards?

Hickenlooper: Yes.

Q: Do you support new regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions beyond what was in place under President Obama?

Hickenlooper: Yes.

Q: Do you support a national renewable energy standard? If so, what would it be? If not, why not?

Hickenlooper: Yes.

Q: Do you support increasing federal funding for clean-energy research? If so, how much money? Are there specific areas of research you're most interested in funding, and why?

Hickenlooper: Yes. Next-generation clean energy technologies; public-private partnerships.