Fossil-fueled drought is drying up Maine's groundwater, and the lame-duck Congress is planning to eviscerate the Clean Water Act and accelerate climate pollution with #BAAJA

New post by @riogranderift.bsky.social on #BAAJA

"BAAJA, the Lee-Capito-Heinrich-Whitehouse industrial fast-tracking deal, is firmly on the side of market dominance"

The permitting reform in #BAAJA would centralize decision-making power+regulatory review for natural & cultural resources protection laws in the same fed land managing agencies that are currently being run by a skeleton crew. Superficial permit reviews in a system designed to fail. #ProtectSec106 🏺

It very obviously can't be good for greenhouse pollution, which is why the US fossil fuel industry is the biggest sectoral backer of #BAAJA.

We have known the modeling was BS this whole time.

We OF COURSE want to reduce CO2. We of course WANT more renewable energy. We want IT ALL to be renewable energy.

But we have to be clear eyed about the facts and resist the pitfalls of wishful/magical thinking—on #BAAJA and everything else.

Oh look #BAAJA does almost everything the Big AI front group Chamber of Progress wants on "new energy deployment"

(No idea why the preview image is @mikelevin.org)

The lame duck is going to cripple the next Congress, especially the corrupt #BAAJA, which is political suicide for Democrats, since many of them plan to vote for it

The reason DC lifers are so desperate to pass #BAAJA is to save the data-center bubble. Believe the asset managers.

The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers is not pussyfooting around. #BAAJA is "a legislative assault on the sovereignty of Tribal Nations and, if enacted, would be an egregious violation of the federal government’s trust and treaty responsibilities."

The @sierraclub.org on #baaja has the implicit assumption that its lame-duck passage is inevitable. Repeated references to "over the next month" as the time frame for engaging on this 417-page fossil-fueled monstrosity, which will go to the Senate floor without public hearings testimony, or debate

Taps the sign: “It would be highly ironic if the first action Congress took after an election largely defined by opposition to data centers would be to make it easier to build them.” - @billmckibben.bsky.social on #BAAJA

Native American Rights Fund is organizing against #BAAJA: "BAAJA attempts to strip Tribes of the limited opportunities they currently have to engage as sovereign governments in project permitting, even going so far as to stripping cultural protection and Tribal participation in the NHPA."

“Asking me as a legislator to vote in favor of something based on a non-binding promise made by Donald Trump. I can’t even process that thought. We need to be very careful to not say that we know definitively whether this bill will be good or bad.” @casten.house.gov #BAAJA

The group 106 Strong released this video today on how a crucial part of the National Historic Preservation Act works, what it protects, and how #BAAJA, or the new "permitting reform" bill would under mine it, risking our heritage—especially Native Americans'.

It is so well done it gave us chills.

"hello I'm an independent podcaster who disagrees with @rephuffman.bsky.social and the ED of @nrdc.org and @billmckibben.bsky.social about how Congress works, it must be because I'm right and they're liars"

#BAAJA hijinks

that seems to be the coalition behind #BAAJA

A bill named "Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act" backed by the US Chamber and American Petroleum Institute and the Corporate Energy Buyers Association that Congress is trying to pass in the lame duck couldn't be an example of that corruption, could it? #baaja

The Chamber and the American Petroleum Institute are loving having lefty industrial-policy wonks do their dirty work to justify a mega dirty-energy-AI-corporate-industrial-monopoly power grab before data-center skeptics are sworn in next year.

#BAAJA