DEVELOPING… House Republicans are officially cobbling together a
devastating dirty energy bill from a grab bag of Big Polluter requests. Hearings and markups are underway now, and it looks like a floor vote on a package could come soon. We need to act quickly —
the various bills they’ve released would set environmental policy back decades if they became law.
Provisions include gutting environmental review, opening up public lands and waters to massive new drilling operations, and putting fossil fuel projects on the fast track to approval, tying the Biden administration’s hands.
Fighting this will come down to grassroots pressure and debunking misinformation from polluters and their cronies. Campaigning. Flooding House and Senate office with calls, letters, and emails. Meetings with House champions and Senate leaders. We need to do all of that and more to ensure these damaging policies go nowhere and demand a clean energy future.
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I can’t overstate how bad this could be, Friend. House Republicans are shopping a laundry list of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a quick look at what they’re proposing:
- Gut environmental review. Their bill would severely roll back the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law that requires environmental impact studies for projects like pipelines, highways, and drilling on public lands — and allows affected communities to give input on these projects.
- Massively expand oil and gas drilling. Republicans’ plan would immediately resurrect drilling leases canceled by the Biden administration. From there, it would open up even more public lands and waters for drilling and mining… at a steep discount.
- Greenlight dirty oil pipelines. Their plan could restart construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, parts of whose namesake existing pipeline have had three major oil spills in just five years. It most recently leaked half a million gallons of oil into a Kansas creek in December. Their plan would allow this pipeline extension and other new dangerous pipelines to run through our communities.