{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-introduces-legislation-protect-wyomings-jobs-and-energy-bidens", "Hageman Introduces Legislation to Protect Wyoming\u2019s Jobs and Energy from Biden\u2019s Favoritism", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman introduced legislation to protect Wyoming\u2019s energy industry and jobs from the federal government\u2019s continued weaponization of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Congresswoman Hageman\u2019s bill automatically disqualifies certain decisions from being classified as \u201cmajor federal actions\u201d under NEPA to ensure that new coal, critical mineral, and fluid mineral leases are not subject to disproportionately onerous NEPA requirements. This bill establishes greater regulatory parity between Wyoming\u2019s legacy industries and the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s preferred industries. This legislation takes the formula that other industries have used to carve themselves out of onerous NEPA processes and applies it to Wyoming oil, gas, coal, and critical minerals.\n\nThe CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in 2022, authorized $280 billion to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and included NEPA carveouts that expedite projects for these administration-favored industries. At the same time, however, conservatives in Congress have faced repeated obstacles to reform NEPA to grant America\u2019s energy sector similar privileges. Congresswoman Hageman\u2019s new legislation seeks to bring comparable regulatory relief to certain extraction industries that are vital to Wyoming\u2019s economy, to national security, and to providing affordable and reliable energy for everyone in America, thereby ensuring that these sectors are not held back by excessive regulations.\n\n\u201cWhile the Biden Administration has created carveouts to further his agenda, it has weaponized NEPA against Wyoming\u2019s legacy industries, such as coal, oil, and gas,\u201d said Congresswoman Hageman. \u201cMy legislation levels the playing field, ensuring that reliable energy projects aren\u2019t singled out for unnecessarily long environmental analysis. It\u2019s time to put an end to the government picking winners and losers. The Biden Administration\u2019s NEPA process has been used to benefit its allies while leaving hardworking Wyoming families and communities behind.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nNEPA requires federal agencies to assess the environmental impact of major actions, but it has increasingly been manipulated to delay or block critical energy and mineral projects. The Biden Administration\u2019s approach has created a two-tier system where industries aligned with his political activism benefit from expedited processes, while energy and mining sectors, essential to Wyoming\u2019s and America\u2019s economy, face heightened regulatory burdens. Congresswoman Hageman\u2019s legislation will restore fairness by exempting energy and mineral activities on federal lands from NEPA, ensuring all industries are treated equally and that our jobs and energy future are not disadvantaged.\n\n###\n\nContact: Esteban Elizondo, Communications Director", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-introduces-legislation-protect-wyomings-jobs-and-energy-bidens"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2135058641433716, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}