After an embarrassing, days-long debacle to elect a speaker, the House GOP is already gunning for our public lands.
A provision in the new House rules package that Republicans passed would make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands to state or local governments. This would better facilitate access for private industries like oil and gas to purchase these lands and strip them of all federal protections currently in place.
John, we warned that if Republicans took back the House, our public lands would be in their sights on day one – and we were right. Thankfully, our SEEC members are already fighting back.
We know how this goes, John. The provision in question was passed during the 115th Congress when Republicans last controlled the House – and they abused it to wither away at our public lands bit by bit.
“It’s not good environmental policy, but I’m almost certain that this is going to be what we’re going to see from the Natural Resources Committee: blind loyalty to the oil industry…” - Rep. Raul Grijalva
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