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Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) sponsored an amendment to H.R. 8998, the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025, which would cut all funding to the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), effectively eliminating the agency’s leadership role in coordinating National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and advancing environmental justice across the government, among other critical efforts. This would hamper NEPA environmental review and effective public engagement processes, slowing down worthy projects and risking inappropriate approval of flawed ones that could harm at-risk communities. For too long, communities of color, communities of low wealth, and other historically underserved groups have been forced to bear the brunt of damaging projects, climatic hazards, and health-harming pollution. Federal programs, policies, and agency workforce focus on remedying these injustices, like those run and coordinated by CEQ, are important and should be maintained. On July 24, the House rejected the Perry amendment by a vote of 173-243 (House roll call vote 396). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE.
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