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The Guardian - US
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Hilary Beaumont

FOUND: Senate votes on bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy - You Need To See This

Side by side photos of solar panels and emissions coming out outside power plant
Left: Solar panels in Spotsylvania county, Virginia, on 9 July. Right: Emissions billow out of the stacks at a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania in December 2017. Composite: EPA, Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Senate on Monday advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for datacenters and other infrastructure projects, in the first major action since last week’s election that soundly repudiated Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

It’s a bill that would make it easier to build big infrastructure projects in America – everything from fossil fuel pipelines to transmission lines that would add more clean energy to the grid. And it would roll back environmental and social protections to achieve this goal. That is why climate advocates are torn over the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs act (Baaja).

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