Rs have a majority and the White House. Act like it.
E&E News (9/18/25) reports: "A bipartisan House caucus released a sweeping permitting package Thursday, recycling some well-worn ideas to ease the federal process for massive infrastructure projects like pipelines and transmission lines. Led by the caucus’ energy working group heads, Reps. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), the framework outlines a plan to set deadlines, reduce litigation and accelerate reviews for projects...For years, permitting discussions have inched forward, but bipartisan legislation has failed. While Republicans have long wanted to rework environmental laws for projects of all kinds, including pipelines, Democrats see transmission lines as the key to unleashing more clean energy. Now, some old players — and many new ones — say they want to move legislation by the end of the year...Late last year, a permitting deal pushed by then-Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and others collapsed. It broadly would have traded power line buildout for considerable changes to the National Environmental Policy Act and litigation limits. Several lawmakers insisted they were within striking distance of a deal, but several House Energy and Commerce Republicans were opposed to the transmission provisions. Now, Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) says he’s open to working on transmission language, though he had not reviewed the new Problem Solvers framework Wednesday."
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"Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice. We need to keep this history in mind as we are inundated with stories of climate Armageddon."
– Bjorn Lomborg,
Copenhagen Consensus
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