The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.

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[–] 11 points 8 hours ago

That fucking sucks.

If you read about the legislation, there was a lot of phrasing in it to make it sound like they were giving concessions to climate goals, but in practice it's really just a palatable wrapper to cut red tape for fossil fuel companies.

It had a couple riders though such as lukewarm regulations for data centers, so I wonder how many of these Dems got caught up in that, or how many neglected to read it for its substance.

I have no doubt that some of them at least voted for it because it's a boon to the fossil fuel industry though.

We might be able to use some parts of it to further the development of renewable energy infrastructure, but overall that's a consolation prize at best, and this should have been rejected in favor of crafting better legislation next session.

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