Western Energy Alliance Supports the Debt Ceiling Package

Western Energy Alliance today applauded leaders in Congress and the White House for including reforms to permitting energy and infrastructure projects within the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The following statement is attributable to Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma:
 
“Western Energy Alliance enthusiastically supports the debt ceiling agreement. This is a strong first step to getting American energy infrastructure more expeditiously permitted, thereby reducing costs to taxpayers, and easing high energy prices for consumers. The reform to NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) analysis, which for decades has been a huge stumbling block to getting things built in America, is extremely important for getting the country back on the path of energy dominance.

​“NEPA reform is crucial if we have any hope of restoring some sanity to development on federal lands and waters and getting pipelines built. NEPA has been used as a weapon to stop the very pipelines that would enable energy producers to capture more greenhouse gas emissions and even threatens the wind, solar, and carbon capture projects Congress funded in the inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act. We urge Members of Congress to vote for the compromise.”

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