GHG Requirements Will Drive Up Energy Costs, and Jeopardize Jobs, Infrastructure, Energy Independence, and National Security

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"These issues will likely lead to unnecessary costs, delays, legal threats, and widespread confusion that delay or shut down major energy infrastructure projects. Moreover, agencies already possess full discretion to discuss these issues as part of its their NEPA reviews if they deem such information appropriate. Therefore, such guidance is unnecessary, duplicative, and counterproductive for infrastructure development.

Sacrificing energy independence and national security for the misguided and confusing policy in CEQ's GHG guidance represents a dangerous and unnecessary domestic gamble. After Americans struggled with record high gas prices last year, gas prices are now rising again in the face of increasing demand and the foreign influence of OPEC+….

NEPA-related delays in infrastructure projects can lead to the loss of investment and extinguish the labor force when jobs are put on hold or never materialize. These delays represented a significant reason for national labor and commerce groups' strong support of the updating, modernizing, and streamlining of NEPA regulations during the Trump Administration.

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[c]ontrary to these admissions, CEQ's guidance imposes onerous review requirements on the very projects necessary to achieve energy independence."

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