Republicans Advance Bill to Fast-Track Fracking, Logging and Mining on Public Lands – legislation would make it harder to file legal challenges against controversial mines and pipelines.

GOP Advances Bill to Fast-Track Fracking, Logging and Mining on Public Lands



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  1. > House Natural Resources Committee advanced a portion of the GOP budget package this week that would open vast swaths of public lands to private oil and gas extraction, logging, and coal and mineral mining while fast-tracking permits and slashing oversight of proposed fossil fuel projects.

    > It would also require the U.S. Forest Service to sign long-term agreements with timber companies and would direct federal agencies to increase logging in U.S. forests by 25 percent while rescinding protections for old growth trees.

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