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The bipartisan energy bill tearing the climate movement apart
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Four senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, negotiated a sprawling permitting reform bill called BAAJA that would speed government approval of power plants, transmission lines, and gas pipelines by weakening NEPA review and making approved projects harder to cancel. The bill has split the climate movement between those who want to build clean energy fast and those who warn it sacrifices tribal lands, endangered species, and marginalized communities to get there.
A 2025 study found 64% of solar projects, 38% of wind projects, and 31% of transmission projects already face NEPA lawsuits, the delays supporters say the bill would fix. The Senate won't take up the bill until after the midterms, and it hasn't cleared committee or faced the House.
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Two sides who agree the planet is cooking still can't agree on whether lawsuits or pipelines are the bigger threat, and somehow the compromise is to weaken the laws meant to catch both. A four-hundred-page bill cooked up by four senators behind closed doors is a strange place to settle a fight this big. Watch which communities get called acceptable collateral when the lobbying starts.
