GOP Will Seek To Roll Back Environmental Protections

Politico reports:

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his team have spent weeks assembling a marquee energy package designed to unite their fractious conference and accomplish one of their biggest pledges from last year’s gas-price-obsessed midterms.

The energy package — which they aim to pass the last week of March — is set to include some of the party’s most popular pitches over the past decade, from boosting fossil-fuel production on federal lands to disapproving of President Joe Biden’s block on the Keystone XL pipeline to easing environmental reviews of energy and mining projects.

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House Republicans want to pass a huge energy bill by the end of March with some of the party’s most popular pitches over the past decade, from boosting fossil-fuel production on federal lands to easing environmental reviews of energy and mining projects. https://t.co/GqMy6bDVS4

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