Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

Erik is doing heroic work ringing the alarm about this “permitting reform” bill that will clearcut another swathe of environmental law

This dude was elevated to the Senate for precisely this purpose.

Yeah, I don't think the permitting reform advocated for by the American Petroleum Institute is good.

Let's not forget, folks: American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers told House Republicans that "This is literally what we've been asking for for over a decade, and it is a generational opportunity to get permitting reform done."

Can anyone point me to a member of the highlighted Group 2 (wants more fossil fuel production + does not want more renewable energy production) who has come out *against* the federal permitting bill? Members of Group 2 aren't exactly rare; Trump, who hates wind turbines, is one example.

… is that it’s a divisive distraction that pretends that immolating our environmental laws can somehow render the data center buildout as currently conceived compatible with stabilizing the climate. It can’t.

There are lots of reasons to be deeply concerned about this bill if you’re a person who thinks things like clean water, healthy oceans and biodiversity are important. But one reason to be concerned if you are a "climate person" …

So, yes, as Meyer says, the current system, which is stacked in favor of fossil fuels, “sucks.” But that same system allowed a tripling of renewable electricity generation over the course of the last decade and the realistic hope of phasing down fossil fuels. This was *very* recently.

"Why limit these safeguards just as the country faces another major wave of industrialization? And why make it even harder to protect endangered species at a time when their peril was never clearer?"

"I was deeply saddened to see that the permitting bill proposes curtailing the authority that allowed Bristol Bay to be protected. This is one of many rollbacks that the bill outlines for the Clean Water Act."

"We are also being asked to ignore that the oil and gas industry has currently and entirely rigged the system in its favor. The bill weakens some of the strongest tools available to stop harmful projects."