Ranking Member Grijalva Leads 79-Member Letter to President Biden, Democratic Leadership Opposing Environmental Rollbacks in Must-Pass Legislation

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"Under the guise of "permitting reform," these extreme, ideological attacks on NEPA would eliminate requirements to consider climate change and pollution impacts, cut public input opportunities, and limit judicial review. To protect American communities and our environment from undue harm, we strongly urge you to oppose ongoing attempts to attach H.R. 1 or any other extreme proposals that gut our bedrock environmental and public health laws to must-pass legislation.

Experts and federal agency leadership have consistently identified insufficient staffing and agency capacity as the most significant cause of permitting delays outside of delays caused by permit applicants themselves, which are by far the most common cause of project delay. For example, last month, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning told Congress that staff shortages are the biggest hurdle to speedy energy project permitting."

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