cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
january cant come soon enough
BAAJA was officially endorsed by Citizens Climate Lobby because it fast tracks permitting for green energy projects. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/baaja/
Helping fossil fuel projects was probably part of the bipartisan compromise, but I trust that organization to do the math on net climate benefit.
Specifically, it removes particular obstacles that the Trump administration has been using to block wind projects, including and especially those that were already permitted.
It’s also targeted at electrical grid upgrades, and transmission infrastructure upgrades in particular is an area that we really do need faster approvals.
I don’t love that this speeds up oil and gas pipeline projects or electrical permitting for big data centers. And on Monday, to encourage Democrats to vote for cloture on this bill, the Trump administration finalized approval for 10 wind projects that had been held up for a while. Except Trump himself said in a statement afterward that this bill, if passed into law, would not convince him to issue any more wind permits.
So it really is a calculation of policy tradeoffs: streamline oil pipelines and AI data center construction, in exchange for taking away the president’s power to block already permitted wind, allowing faster development of electrical infrastructure. During a bad faith presidency where the president will selectively enforce only the parts of the law he likes, but in the last 2 years of a lame duck administration, and where wrongfully denied permits would probably be successfully challenged in courts.
I don’t like it, but I also recognize that this isn’t a fossil fuel giveaway. This is a compromise that includes a fossil fuel giveaway, in exchange for things we really do want in the law.
Y’all were crying about your fuel and other energy prices being relatively cheap instead of the usual nearly-free prices you’ve always had. Then you’re surprised that a change is pushed through to make it cheaper again?
Cry me a fucking river, Americans. You all wanted this.
This is to accelerate AI datacenters if you read between the lines. Not gas prices. Pipelines and transmission lines.
We should be investing in alternatives.
Like guillotines.
The time has long been here.
We should be demanding new leadership!
Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let’s get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
They want a civil war but don’t realize how close the left is to joining the next insurrection. Nobody is happy. Nobody on either side.
There will never be a civil war cos the left have no guns whereas the conservatives have lol
This is so unbelievably wrong.
lemmy users really just be making up the stupidest shit and posting it. are you a bot?
I don’t understand how the senate can have “recess” from August to September and then all of October then they get to pull this shit after an election just because. It’s sick.
The 11 dems who were needed to pass Massies impeachment of Hegseth didnt show up to work that day either. Impeaching Hegseth and doing their job to hold republicans responsible for murder and high crimes just wasnt important to them.
These traitor-Dems need to lose their seats at the next possible chance.
Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) Marilyn Strickland (Washington) Julia Brownley (California) Lou Correa (California) Laura Gillen (New York) Steven Horsford (Nevada) Jonathan Jackson (Illinois) Nancy Pelosi (California) Brittany Pettersen (Colorado) Haley Stevens (Michigan) Frederica Wilson (Florida)
Not surprised to see Haley Stevens there, considering she’s gone full Republican and been kicked from the party after her loss to Abdul El-Sayed despite millions from AIPAC. At least she’ll be gone come January.
We need a revolution
a violent one.
Or at least one thats not utterly pacifist and shame based. Our system knows exactly how to drown pacifist causes. They have had a lot of practice.
It has to be multilateral
Monoparty
Because if course they did. Bought and paid for.
It was one party all that time? Damn, they’re good!
This is exactly what we need to point to whenever someone says vote blue no matter who.
I actually did vote for one Republican locally because he was experienced and could get the job done. All the rest dems and every one of them lost because of gerrymandering.
But they cheated and still lost nationally, so fuck them. Hope is not lost. If you’re in a red district, you can still call and request that minority leader not be an AIPAC whore. Tell them you’ll vote them out.
When are we burning shit?
I don’t think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.
Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.
The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.
Depends. Is it Primaries season, or is it the General election?
If the former, then vote progressives in.
If the latter, show me in the races these Democrats were elected where the Republican wasn’t objectively worse on practically every issue.
Lesser evilism doesn’t work.
“vote blue no matter who in the general” is how we get outcomes like this one. Well done.
The Democratic party and GOP should both go the way of the Whigs. Neither are working for the American people. Or humanity.
The Whigs simply reconstituted as the Republicans. They never really went away
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that. The other stuff is correct though. The Whigs were where corporate Democrats are today. Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning that their actual name is lost to history. They only lasted a few years before dying out and getting reabsorbed into one of the existing parties, or leaving politics entirely.
I thought they were the “Know Nothing” party
Do Nothing, Know Nothing, Speak of Nothing. It is the natural home of the world’s Mike Johnsons, and other assorted chimps.
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Eh. There was a rapid decay of progressivism in the Whig-turned-Republican Party in the 1880s, culminating in several decades of fascism, oligarchy, and outright White Supremacy as the prevailing order of the federal and state governments. This peaked with Coolidge in the 1920s and have birth to a brief US flirtation with Communism as an active movement.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that.
Plenty of Whigs were progressive. Conscience Whigs were a political force across New England long before Republicans existed as a party. And they were the first to defect en mass to the Republicans when they did manifest.
Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning
Do you mean the “Know Nothing” Party? Because that was a secret society which operated in direct conflict with Conscience Whigs, effectively splitting the organization in 1854 and giving Republicans an opportunity to emerge onto the national scene.
This is why I get tired of the US getting criticized.
It’s been said the only true role fulfillment championed by dem leadership is to be the perennial opposition party. They are not paid to win and subsequently they do not motivate their lesser peers to behave like winners. Schumer and Jeffries were chosen to maintain a constant loser state of existence.
