Top Senate Republicans unveiled what they said was a comprehensive strategy to promote U.S. energy independence and innovation while maintaining the nation’s competitive edge.
The proposal would reportedly create jobs across the energy sector and would not favor renewable jobs over those in the oil and gas industry, according to an outline of the plan obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The senators noted that the U.S. has led the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The plan called for a complete overhaul to the current federal permitting process for all energy projects, including oil and gas, wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear and rare earth mineral mining.
They said it would reduce emissions by 40 percent by 2050 and have 3.5 times more reductions than the multi-trillion-dollar Green New Deal would achieve.
“This framework isn’t just responsive to the Green New Deal, it is better than the Green New Deal,” Lummis told reporters Wednesday.
Some of the Republicans’ specific policies involve expanding U.S. oil, natural gas and nuclear energy production, developing carbon capture technology and reforming the National Environmental Policy Act, which critics argue delays government projects...MORE
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Notice that all forms of metal mining are NOT mentioned as though mining is a dirty word to the fair minded republicans.
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