Sen. Barrasso Pushes Bill to Speed Up Energy Permits and Limit Environmental Lawsuits
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While this bill has strong support from Republicans, it faces a likely filibuster from Democrats who oppose weakening environmental protections.
Federal employees at the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and FERC face major changes to how they do their work. New hard deadlines for environmental reviews, requirements to defer to state regulations, and restrictions on what they can analyze (no social cost of carbon, no upstream/downstream emissions) significantly reduce professional discretion. Delegating permitting authority to states could shrink the federal workforce role in energy development on public lands.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S2759-2766)
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Let America Build Act of 2026
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