Last-minute Clarification on EPRA, and potential push-backs:
Dan Barenholtz
Dan Barenholtz
50th Congressional Contact 30th Training Completed! 5th Lobby Meeting with Congress
38 Posts

Does anyone have any knowledge as to the validy of the following claims? Are these claims mostly twisting EPRA out of proportion, or is there any real validy to any of this?:

"Among other provisions, the Energy Permitting Reform Act does the following:

  • Weakens enforcement of several environmental and public health laws by greatly limiting the statute of limitations to challenge unlawful permitting decisions, including decisions required by the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act.
  • Reverses the Biden-Harris administration’s pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals, blocking the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to ensure that approved LNG projects properly account for climate risks and do not increase energy costs for American consumers.
  • Fast-tracks future approvals for LNG export projects with strict, yet arbitrary deadlines. The U.S. is already the number one exporter of LNG worldwide, and exports are expected to double by 2030.
  • Requires at least one offshore oil and gas lease sale per year, with a minimum of 60 million acres to be offered to oil and gas drilling each year.
  • Allows hardrock mining projects to dump toxic mining waste on even more public lands by allowing them to claim as many lands for “mill sites” as they need for nominal fees.
  • Sets strict, yet arbitrary deadlines for approving coal leases on public land.
  • Exempts oil and gas drilling projects on certain parcels of land from federal laws and the federal permitting process entirely."
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Dana Nuccitelli
Dana Nuccitelli
Staff Action Team Leader Congressional Liaison
2002 Posts

Hi @Dan Barenholtz. Those critiques are generally not big deals, and many are baked in because the incoming administration has control over them (like LNG export facility permitting and oil & gas federal land lease sales). See our FAQs document for details:

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William Jones
William Jones
Congressional Liaison 50th Congressional Contact 10th LTE / Op-Ed
5 Posts
The hard rock mining issues are a big deal to lots of people who live close to the area where Rosemont Mine is proposed. When you live somewhere else, it is not a big deal. The mine will DUMP tailings over a pristine area and use about one million gallons of water EVERY DAY in Arizona that is struggling with over 20 years of drought. that amount of water could serve 97,000 people for 40 years. NOT A BIG DEAL? It is all perspective.
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Lynda Marin
Lynda Marin
Group Leader 50th Congressional Contact 20th Lobby Meeting with Congress
96 Posts

@William Jones
Thank you William. It is indeed a BIG DEAL. And I think we shoot our credibility in the foot when we say it isn't. Where is the social and environmental justice concern? If we won't work as hard for the justice component as we do for the emissions reduction component, I don't think we'll have the kind of success we're longing for. Of course, it's a moot point at the moment, EPRA not having been included in the bill. At this moment we are not even avoiding a shutdown, so there are a few deep holes to claw our way out of going forward.

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Craig Mills
Craig Mills
50th Congressional Contact 10th Training Completed 5th Chapter Meeting
1 Posts
I totally agree with Williams’ post. I am a climate migrant who fled the constantly increasing temperatures in the Phoenix area to the more temperate climates of southern Washington. While in Arizona, I had the opportunity to observe some of the impacts of Rosemont mining while backpacking the Arizona Trail southeast of Tucson. They were devastating and saddening, if only from a semi-remote perspective.
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