Washington, D.C.– Ahead of Congress voting on slate of anti-environmental bills this week and next including, the PERMIT Act (H.R. 3898), the SPEED Act (H.R. 4776), H.R. 3668, H.R. 3628, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632, the League of Conservation Voters released the following statement from Vice President of Federal Policy, Matthew Davis: 

“We need to remove the barriers to building cheap and fast-to-deploy clean energy sources that are best positioned to meet rising energy demand, address skyrocketing costs, protect our communities, and ensure access to clean air and water. That starts with stopping the Trump administration from effectively banning clean energy, which threatens half of all new electricity projected to come onto our country’s grid in the next five years. It also means building transmission, speeding up the connection of clean energy projects, modernizing our grid and more.

“But House Republicans are doing none of these things. Instead, they are, once again, prioritizing handouts to their fossil fuel buddies, over helping support the real solutions to address skyrocketing energy costs for hardworking families. Passing this slate of extreme bills would further advantage expensive dirty energy, while kneecapping cheap clean energy and preventing public input on harmful projects that could impact our communities. Our public lands, waters, health and communities are at risk, as these bills could mean more pipelines, coal-fired power plants, and other  projects polluting our air, water, and land.”

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