Sadly, Ed, it won't matter.In a major win for the fossil fuel industry and pro-industry lawmakers like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), the debt ceiling deal lawmakers are racing to pass and send to President Biden’s desk for a signature overhauls the federal permitting process for major energy projects.
The bill [...] would narrow the environmental reviews for new energy projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The change to the decades-old law would mean that agencies would be required to focus specifically on “reasonably foreseeable environmental effects” in their reviews of projects, rather than more abstract or downstream impacts.
It would also cap the time for most reviews at a year, with two years for projects that may have larger environmental impacts.
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The reforms included in the current bill would represent the biggest changes to the landmark law in roughly four decades.
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“I will not support a deal to fast-track dirty fossil fuel projects at the expense of environmental justice. I will not give polluters a Get Out of Jail Free card. I will vote NO on the default deal,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted Wednesday night.
The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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