Friend –
Republicans know that their “big, beautiful bill” is unpopular.
That’s why the House Rules Committee began their meeting last night at 1:00 am, hoping Americans won’t catch on to their plans to sell off over 10,000 acres of public lands, strip away money from clean energy projects, chip away at the Inflation Reduction Act, and more.
Our SEEC members in the Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources Committees are sounding the alarm and opposing Republican attacks on our environmental future – from SEEC Vice Chair and Ways and Means member Don Beyer (VA-8) working to protect clean energy incentives to our 13 Natural Resources Committee members (Reps. Huffman, Neguse, Leger Fernández, Stansbury, Hoyle, Magaziner, Dingell, Elfreth, Dexter, Ansari, Brownley, Soto, and Min) fighting for our public lands. They need your support as they go toe-to-toe with the GOP – can they count on you to rush a donation with the full House vote looming later this week?
Even though Republicans don’t want you to know what they’re up to, you deserve the truth about the favors they’re doing for special interests. Here are just a few provisions in this lobbyist wishlist of a megabill:
- Gives polluters “get out of jail free cards” by letting companies pay for legal immunity for environmental reviews.
- Slaps a fine on protests filed against oil and gas leases, muzzling dissent and pro-conservation civic engagement.
- Locks up 4 million acres for coal mining, despite coal making less and less economic sense (let alone being terrible for the environment).
- Eliminates protections for endangered species who are vulnerable to offshore oil and gas operations, dooming our planet’s most endangered whale to extinction.
- Raising household energy costs while handing out tax breaks to billionaires and big polluters.
- Killing good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs by defunding innovation and industrial modernization.
- Demolishing incentives for electric vehicles, advanced manufacturing, and zero-emission energy.
It’s no surprise why this megabill is something Republicans are waiting until Americans go to sleep to work on. These measures betray their constituents and the working families who deserve clean air, clean water, access to good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs, and a healthy environmental future that’s well within reach.
We’re keeping a close eye on any developments – more to come.
– SEEC PAC