Democrats' witness at a House hearing Tuesday blasted supporters of the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed with Democratic support, for “permitting a climate apocalypse.”
, an offshore lease sale stretching across 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, and to hold three other offshore lease sales that the Biden administration had previously canceled over climate concerns. . Under the bill, the DOI is prohibited from issuing wind or solar permits unless it has issued an onshore oil and gas permit during the previous 120-day period and at least two million acres of land was leased for oil and gas development during the previous year.
"I live in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, an environmental justice community afflicted by institutionalized environmental racism," he stated."West Port Arthur is a predominantly Black community along the Gulf Coast of Texas, that has been an economic and energy ‘sacrifice zone’ for the fossil fuel industry."In January, though, Democratic leaders including Natural Resources Ranking Member Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
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