Senate advances bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy
It’s a bill that would make it easier to build big infrastructure projects in America – everything from fossil fuel pipelines to transmission lines that would add more clean energy to the grid.
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- And it would roll back environmental and social protections to achieve this goal.
The Senate voted 73-25 to formally take up the bill, which senators and the president have pushed as a way to meet growing demand for electricity and other forms of energy that now face years-long delays in getting to the grid.
That is why climate advocates are torn over the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs act (Baaja).
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