Brad Johnson
@climatebrad.hillheat.com
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Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Registered Parliamentarian. FSP. Subscribe to my newsletter: Hillheat.news/subscribe
Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Registered Parliamentarian. FSP. Subscribe to my newsletter: Hillheat.news/subscribe
![Adam Jentleson: "It’s instructive to see groups ostensibly dedicated to fighting climate change say they don’t think a bill should be judged by whether it reduces carbon emissions."
"Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, West. Envtl. Law Ctr :58:08] Yeah. So we we made. We made the point that this bill should not be judged just based on a net emissions analysis and that that sweeps aside ecological and community values. So there was an ask about what that. like? So that would be a good thing for folks to ponder as they're engaging in offices. Like, we'd like to see... and what we... and then, so as an example, we said we'd love an assessment to... we'd love an assessment to see what this means for public lands. You know, how many data centers would this open the doors to? How much additional fossil fuel development would this open the door to? How would this impact habitat quality on public land? So focusing on that public land side of the equation and the infrastructure that would be built on public lands. But that's that's just one domain, you know. You could see it also with imperiled species or environmental justice. I don't know what those analyses look like at that level. But I think that's something that we could push."
PUNCHBOWL NEWS:
Greens plot. Environmental groups are split over how to handle a permitting bill negotiated by two longtime allies of the movement: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the ENR ranking member.
On a Thursday call organized in part by the Sierra Club, a transcript of which was leaked to us, progressive opponents tried to rally fence-sitters against the bill. Some of the 89 participants said they hadn't fully reviewed it yet.
At the outset of the call, one speaker, Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, stressed he wanted to keep their strategy a secret from Whitehouse and Heinrich.
"Our tactics and information cannot get back to Dan Dudis and Whitehouse and Heinrich.…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w7jirivxkdpu4gvmdgsito3k/bafkreieyr3qfds6kmo4g7pdnwoo4zin2jqvmxmnxo3gjt6s34drdvvi42q)
