Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SPEED Act (H.R.4776), a sweeping rollback of the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The bill would accomplish deregulatory goals of Project 2025, the extreme right-wing policy blueprint for the Trump administration. It would take away the power of citizens to participate in protecting their communities and give the billionaire class and its industries carte blanche to pollute and take public resources. The U.S. Senate must stand up to these monied interests and reject this far-reaching rollback of environmental and community protections.
“Renewable energy and climate advocates in the Senate must hold the line against the SPEED Act’s evisceration of our bedrock environmental and community protection law,” said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center. “This bill is little more than a gift to Big Oil. It would supercharge the climate crisis, worsen natural disasters, and harm public health. Permit reform during the fossil fuel-dominated 119th Congress is a dead end for the public good. It must be stopped.”
WELC signed on to a letter to House representatives from 100+ advocacy organizations and a letter from western groups opposing the bill. These resources outline the chilling details of how the SPEED Act would serve private profit over the public interest in the short term and hurl us all and our descendants off the climate cliff in the long term.
Contacts:
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, 575-751-0351, eriksg@westernlaw.org
Marlyn Twitchell, 541-485-2471, ext. 144, twitchell@westernlaw.org
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