If you want to read more about this bill, the New Republic has a good article on the BAAJA: The takeaway:
This week, in their first major action since then, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and 21 other Democratic senators voted to fast-track a Republican bill that would eviscerate America’s bedrock environmental laws in order to, in Trump’s words, “codify our America First Energy Agenda” of building “Pipelines, Mines, and Power Plants faster than ever before” so that America remains “Number One” in data center construction. read the whole story at The Republic.
The blog Hill Heat has this article.
Seventeen State Attorneys General Call For BAAJA To Be Dropped.
17 Democratic attorneys general, including two governors-elect, notified the U.S. Senate that they oppose BAAJA’s threat to state and tribal sovereignty, and do not want the legislation considered during the lame-duck session. They sent the letter in response to the Saturday release of the managers’ amendment and before the first vote to bring the legislation, now attached to H.R. 2347, to the floor. The bill, they warn, “provides federal agencies with nearly unfettered discretion to make key determinations with no input from states or tribes.”
Read the whole story at Hill Heat.
Even the Coalition for Tribal Sovereignty has a huge number of letters against this. I can’t find the Jamestown named here, but they might be part of one of the coalitions. The Suquamish and Cowlitz are represented. Are the Jamestown against or in favor of this?
Bloomberg has an article on the effects of historic sites and native American sites.
Hundreds of architects, historians and archaeologists assembled in Washington this week to register their objections to a major permitting reform bill making its way through Congress. They warn that a little-discussed provision of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 would imperil historic sites across the US while opening up tribal lands to extraction.
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