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Remember MAGA/DOGE decimated the federal agencies that regulate these permit processes and planted MAGA puppets.
All kinds of janky projects are going to get fast -tracked and permitted.
THOSE PROJECTS WILL BE UNTOUCHABLE.
FOREVER.
Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
Congress Shouldn't Weaken Endangered Species Act for Faster Permitting. For >50 years, the ESA has been a bipartisan commitment to preventing extinction. Senators should not trade that for new bureaucratic hurdles & fewer protections for threatened wildlife. us.list-manage.com/F90PwQkrL…
Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
UPDATE: Monday, the Senate votes to end debate on BAAJA, the bill that speeds up pipelines, mines, and power plants. The very Dems who voted yes are about to decide whether it happens.
Sen. Cortez Masto (D-NV) says she won't back final passage unless the tribal provisions change. Tribal groups oppose the bill.
Here's the rundown if you need to get caught up.
It started with the vote on the 9th. Then on the 10th they voted 62-21 to put the bill on the Senate floor.
On the 11th, Thune filed to end debate on the rewritten version and on the bill itself. Those votes haven't happened yet. They're Monday, Nov. 16.
We're still waiting on the date of the final vote.
A few of the Democrats who voted yes say they did it so they could fight for amendments to the bill. I wonder if that's why some of the others voted yes too. They should be voting a flat no to protect our public lands, wildlife and the environment. This bill should never have gotten off the table.
If you want to know more about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, "BAAJA," a.k.a. the "permitting bill," that's okay. Many people haven't. There's plenty of info, and it's all in the first reply. Don't get overwhelmed. Just take your time & check it out. Any questions — just holler at me!
Heads up, folks: the next vote takes place Monday, Nov. 16, at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Let's make sure we call our members of Congress and urge them to vote no on this destructive BAAJA bill.
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#DemsUnited
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🚨 URGENT: The Senate votes Monday on a bill that would make permits on our public lands nearly impossible for ANY future president to undo.
And Trump's admin is still handing them out on those very lands right now.
They're calling it the permitting bill, and it's a sneaky one. It's far worse than the name sounds.
Any permit still in effect on September 16, 2026 gets shielded, no matter who issued it or when. Older permits count too, even decades old, if they're still active. So does every one Trump's admin signs from here on.
The thing I want you to understand is this. Federal oil and gas leases don't expire as long as they keep producing. A lease signed in the 70s or 80s is still in effect today if it's still producing. Earthjustice warns this bill makes leases like that "virtually impossible to overturn."
To change or cancel a permit, a future admin would have to prove it by "clear and convincing evidence."
Only five reasons count:
1. A court orders it.
2. The permit holder broke the law.
3. The permit was obtained through fraud.
4. The permit holder asks for it.
5. An urgent threat to life, property, or national security the original review missed.
If none apply, the permit stays. Locked in. Trumped in.
If a judge finds the government botched the environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, the judge can order a redo. But the judge can't cancel the permit or stop the project. The bulldozers keep running during the redo.
Tribes don't get a say until AFTER agencies have already made up their minds about work on their ancestral lands and sacred sites.
Two Democrats, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), signed on to the bill Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced, with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
Voters just handed Democrats Congress. Two of them put their names on a bill that locks in Trump's permits anyway.
This sitting Congress is trying to push it through Monday. Please call your members of Congress today. We don't have much time.
I've tagged the four senators behind this. Let them know how you feel about it by saying no to the bill to your MOC.
Thank you for standing up for our public lands.
#DemsUnited
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Another MAGA-Grift. This time hold the American public hostage.
In August, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told me they needed $19 billion to complete the air traffic control overhaul.
With no explanation, that number jumped to $30 billion in a September press conference where Bedford and DOT Sec. Sean Duffy spoke.
Last night, Duffy threw out a new figure. $50 billion. No explanation other than we need it. This is on top of $12.5 billion that Congress funded last year.
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MAGA doesn’t want you to ask questions about BAAJA.
No clean energy without building dirty data centers first and faster.
The growing demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is creating a new debate over how federal public lands should be used.
Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico has asked the Bureau of Land Management to disclose details about data center development proposals under consideration across the West.
In a November 6 letter, Heinrich cited reporting that BLM is reviewing at least 15 proposals involving more than 17,000 acres across six Western states.
Those figures include data centers and related infrastructure, potentially including transmission lines and access roads. They do not establish that all 17,000 acres would be covered by data center buildings.
The senator wants to know which companies are behind the proposals, where the projects would be located, what legal authority BLM intends to use and whether the public will have an opportunity to comment.
The agency has been asked to respond by November 20.
Data centers require substantial electricity, reliable infrastructure and, depending on their cooling systems, potentially significant water supplies.
Developers are searching for locations where large facilities can connect to power generation and transmission networks.
Federal land presents opportunities for infrastructure development, but it also supports grazing, wildlife habitat, recreation and other established uses.
The potential conflicts depend on individual project locations.
A transmission corridor crossing public land presents different questions than a large computing facility built directly on federal acreage.
Supporters of expanded domestic data center development point to investment, construction jobs and the importance of American computing capacity.
Critics question whether public land should be committed to private industrial facilities without transparent review of environmental impacts and competing uses.
No comprehensive list of these projects has been released in the senator's letter, and the cited proposals should not be treated as approved construction.
For ranchers, hunters and rural communities, the immediate issue is access to basic information, including where development is proposed, how much land it would occupy and what protections would apply.
BLM's November 20 response could provide the first clearer accounting of the proposals under consideration.
Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
The growing demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is creating a new debate over how federal public lands should be used.
Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico has asked the Bureau of Land Management to disclose details about data center development proposals under consideration across the West.
In a November 6 letter, Heinrich cited reporting that BLM is reviewing at least 15 proposals involving more than 17,000 acres across six Western states.
Those figures include data centers and related infrastructure, potentially including transmission lines and access roads. They do not establish that all 17,000 acres would be covered by data center buildings.
The senator wants to know which companies are behind the proposals, where the projects would be located, what legal authority BLM intends to use and whether the public will have an opportunity to comment.
The agency has been asked to respond by November 20.
Data centers require substantial electricity, reliable infrastructure and, depending on their cooling systems, potentially significant water supplies.
Developers are searching for locations where large facilities can connect to power generation and transmission networks.
Federal land presents opportunities for infrastructure development, but it also supports grazing, wildlife habitat, recreation and other established uses.
The potential conflicts depend on individual project locations.
A transmission corridor crossing public land presents different questions than a large computing facility built directly on federal acreage.
Supporters of expanded domestic data center development point to investment, construction jobs and the importance of American computing capacity.
Critics question whether public land should be committed to private industrial facilities without transparent review of environmental impacts and competing uses.
No comprehensive list of these projects has been released in the senator's letter, and the cited proposals should not be treated as approved construction.
For ranchers, hunters and rural communities, the immediate issue is access to basic information, including where development is proposed, how much land it would occupy and what protections would apply.
BLM's November 20 response could provide the first clearer accounting of the proposals under consideration.
Momentum is shifting. More and more folk are turning against the MAGA-grift called BAAJA.
No more handouts to oil/gas/mining/data center builders.
Congress Should Wait on Permitting Until Next Year, Poll Finds. The poll found that 51% of survey respondents preferred the new Democratic-led Congress to consider the bipartisan permitting legislation.
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Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
The BAAJA environmental protection law rollbacks apply to literally everything. Not just energy but every conceivable action that the feds permit - data centers, toxic waste dumps, biological warfare facilities, medical waste incinerators, you name it. If the feds have a role, this bill handcuffs them. Seems bad if you breathe air or drink water.
I guess some folk haven’t heard of Scott Galloway aka Prof G.
This is Centrist politics.
It’s a fire sale, folks!!
Get your land today!!
Have a data center to build???
BAAJA, will help get you through the permit process.
Don’t wait. Permits need to be approved by 2028!!
→ Not many people will read 28 pages, so here's what's inside. The plan barely says where the land is or how much, and it names data centers. Outdoor Life: outdoorlife.com/conservation…
Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
@VanHollenForMD has only 15k followers on this account.
Follow him you’d like to.
Spent all these years protecting public lands only for MAGA to cash in like they won the lottery.
The Interior Department has announced plans to reduce federal land ownership across the West.
Its new strategy calls for selling public lands to states, local governments and Tribes.
No parcels or acreage targets have been identified, but the policy marks a significant shift in federal land management.
Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 retweeted
The Bipartisan American Affordability & Jobs Act would limit the ability of states & tribes to protect their waterways and communities from harmful projects like data centers powered by dirty energy. Tell your senators to vote NO on BAAJA! #NOBAAJA
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MAGA gonna MAGA
NEW: On Veterans Day, House Republicans pulled a dirty trick to pass a bill with a voice vote that cuts Veterans Benefits.
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And here we go…straight down the path of destruction of public land.
BAAJA is solely designed to start as many gas/mine projects as possible and then lock them in before 2028.
BAAJA is just a path to burn more fossil fuel with some green energy thrown in to make it “bipartisan”
The permit process is broken.
Fix the permit process.
The Senate just moved a sweeping permitting bill one step closer to passage.
Americans deserve cheaper, cleaner energy and a say in what gets built in their communities. But this 500-page backroom deal would gut our environmental protections, undermine Tribal sovereignty, and shut communities out of decisions they’ll have to live with for decades.
That could give Trump more room to push through his vanity projects, fast track massive AI data centers, and hand fossil fuel companies another free pass.
Congress still has a chance to say no to this bill as written. We should be making it easier to build clean energy and lower people’s bills, not making it easier to ignore Tribes or anyone Big Oil thinks is in the way. We have to do better.
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This bill is not about affordability or clean energy.
Its climate theater.
It’s greenwashing.
Sure, reforms are necessary, but this is not reform. This gives builders a way to skirt around regs. WITHOUT RECOURSE.
Once the permits are approved, NO LITIGATION
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Everyone can see through this ABUNDANT pile of horse dung.
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