{"id":1840205,"date":"2023-02-08T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840205"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:51:43","slug":"republicans-missed-big-in-house-hearing-on-american-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-missed-big-in-house-hearing-on-american-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Missed Big In House Hearing On American Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-missed-big-in-house-hearing-on-american-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840205&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle shared frustration over the nation\u2019s archaic permitting process Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on energy and minerals. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans criticized the existing process under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), claiming it impedes oil and gas production, while Democrats claimed the regulatory regime blocks wind and solar projects. Everyone, seemed frustrated by the regulatory regime\u2019s impediment to producing critical minerals for all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome my Republican colleagues interested in permitting reform,\u201d Debbie Dingell (Michigan Democrat), whose husband was the one who wrote the Magna Carta in environmental law in 1960s, stated that she is a proud Michigan Democrat. \u201cWe need an honest conversation about permitting and the implementation of NEPA in the 21st century\u2026We can accelerate deployment by becoming much more efficient and predictable [with] clear timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current timelines <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/05\/even-this-left-wing-report-sounds-the-alarm-u-s-is-way-too-dependent-on-communist-china-for-minerals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jeopardized<\/a> America is left behind by foreign adversaries in the development of natural resources. Meanwhile, domestic businesses are left with headaches over pending approvals. This could threaten national security. Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber&#8217;s district contains vast copper- and cobalt deposits <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/26\/interior-department-blocks-minnesota-twin-metals-mining-project-in-big-win-for-beijing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Take off<\/a> Biden administration, which extracted the coal last month; complained that companies looking to mine in his state had waited for decades for permits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Duluth complex in northern Minnesota, the biggest copper and nickel find in the world, which Joe Biden just banned mining in my district, there\u2019s a company in its 20th year of permitting and then there\u2019s another one within 9 years of permitting process,\u201d Stauber said. \u201cIt\u2019s just unfortunate, especially if we want to hold ourselves to the highest environmental and labor standards, we mine in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the status quo is a benefit to liberal lawmakers who are allies with left-wing causes. Republicans did not say anything about it. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration took office last summer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/07\/bidens-swamp-brings-back-sue-and-settle-to-hide-behind-courts-as-it-stomps-out-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reintroduced<\/a> \u201csue and settle\u201d Trump halts all practices. This refers to lefty environmental organizations that ally themselves with the government on an issue and present a legal challenge against a project. In turn, they voluntarily settle. Under the protection of the courts, the preferred policy outcome is implemented and liberal interest groups make a handsome profit from the taxpayer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes 16 years now to permit a new mine,\u201d The Federalist was informed by Rick Whitbeck, the Alaska director of Power the Future. \u201cPart of the process \u2014 at least from the environmental activists \u2014 is to \u2018litigate and make them wait,\u2019 where they continuously file legal motions, find a friendly judge, and delay the permitting process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of the Interior took an axe to her predecessor\u2019s order and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/07\/bidens-swamp-brings-back-sue-and-settle-to-hide-behind-courts-as-it-stomps-out-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sanitized<\/a> The agency website displaying settlements and consent decrees. <\/p>\n<p>This move will reintroduce a key feature of the Beltway swamp activity that brought President Donald Trump to the White House six year ago. However, lawmakers remained silent about the reintroduction. \u201csue and settle\u201d Even though industry leaders keep complaining that environmental litigation is not being done, there are still cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans retreated to talking points and missed a key opportunity to highlight Biden&#8217;s return of &#8216;sue and settle.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1840208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4123,4486,3679,3653,12934,3756],"class_list":["post-1840205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-american","tag-energy","tag-hearing","tag-house","tag-missed","tag-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}