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03/31/23 10:40 AM
While the bill, at least in its entirety, is not expected to advance further, it serves as a starting point for Republicans as they seek to negotiate with Democrats on finding a way to speed up the approval process for energy projects — an effort known as permitting reform.
Democratic leadership sought to pass their own permitting reform legislation last year, but Senate Republicans opposed it, saying it did not go far enough. Bipartisan talks on the issue are ongoing.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, however, rejected the GOP bill as the opening salvo for permitting reform negotiations.
“For anyone who is being lured into thinking there are opportunities for negotiations on this bill, do not be naive,” Grijalva said on the House floor Tuesday. “This performative permitting reform is not a bipartisan solution, not even a starting point for one.”
“This is just another decades old request from polluters to make their operations cheaper and easier while making Americans’ lives harder and more costly,” he continued. “It’s not a serious solution to any of our energy goals.”
Meanwhile, Republicans have also indicated that they may try to use the leverage given to them in the debt ceiling battle to score some energy policy wins — though it’s not clear what exactly that would look like or whether they could convince Democrats to go along with it.
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