NRDC opposes GOP’s “dangerous” new energy agenda
New Republican bill in Congress would open up unprecedented swaths of public lands and waters to oil and gas drilling
The Republican House majority has narrowly passed an extreme “dirty energy” bill that would dramatically turn back the clock on climate and clean energy progress, according to Kyle Jones, Senior Advisor, Federal Affairs, NRDC Action Fund in an email to NRDC members.
The Strategic Production Response Act’s proposed drilling plan is so massive in scale that it would eclipse all historic precedent and pave the way for federal oil and gas leasing on public lands well into the next century, Jones said.
This new energy bill is a “blatant attempt to give away our public lands and waters to the oil and gas industry with no strings attached and we need to make sure they know it is unacceptable and we are watching,” Jones added.
The fight against this “disastrous” Republican oil drilling plan coincides with a lawsuit filed by the NRDC in federal court to block another “climate bomb” the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, recently approved by the Biden administration.
This new House bill, the Strategic Production Response Act, would require that any draw from the U.S.’s emergency stockpile of petroleum be met with a “catastrophic and short-sighted…
