Senate votes on bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy
The Guardian reports on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs act, a bipartisan Senate bill that would ease building big infrastructure from gas pipelines to grid-boosting transmission lines by rolling back environmental and tribal protections, with a procedural vote scheduled as climate advocates remain torn. Sponsors Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse say they have the votes, while Earthjustice, the Sierra Club and the ACLU warn it would gut the National Environmental Policy Act and speed gas pipelines and ICE detention centers, and models disagree on whether emissions would rise or fall.
