my personal view is that the principles of nepa are sound. it's not nepa that's the problem. it's what we decided do with nepa is the problem and so it's a failure of implementation. and so next slide that technical process we've outgrown it. we've had 50 some odd years of nepa we've learned that some things work, some things don't. so it's time for a reset. you know, max weber's observations, the dehumanization required for bureaucracy to succeed that's where we're living in the infrastructure. so it's time to re humanize that process. next slide, please, and to reintroduce judgment and empower people at the another click. yeah we're going to empower a blank slate. know what we want to empower is is co-creation. right? you heard jen mention that in her talk. but putting people at center of decision making, empowering people to do their jobs, to look at the whole and recognize that infrastructure is like any other kind of consumer behavior. i mean, we pretended scientific and rational and defensive and whatnot, but anyone buying a car or a washing machine, a house, you make t

if you don't about nepa, you're living it. this lie wouldn't have been built without nepa. nepa signed by nixon first 1970, and sam clemente, california, at the western house before the football games. come on. shocking press gaggle following him. he nepa which makes environmental statements for construction mandatory real estate commercial development blah blah blah blah blah blah. what does that do, guys? when sign nepa it guarantees law to be a boom industry. i asked my students at rice university if they're not majoring in environment to go work for the sierra club or audubon. so a lot of times they're getting hired by exxonmobil to be an environmentalist making environmental impact statements, but it creates environmental, which is going to lead us to where the fourth wave's coming with climate change. and i dwindling time. i will tell you earth day. nixon decides split the difference. he gives interior staff the day off to teach people about earth. he plants tree on the white house with pat nixon good photo op so he did something tree planting legit and hires the fbi

scientifics through the chips act, they are subject to a new federal review under a process called nepa. this includes projects that have already received the necessary state and federal environmental permits and are already under construction. so factories that are being built right now in places like phoenix could be forced to pause construction and undergo a redundant federal review. and that just doesn't work. so this week, along with my colleagues senators young, round, and hagerty, i introduced the building chips in america act, and this bill would speed up the construction of projects supported by the chips act by streamlining federal permitting reviews and keeping in place bedrock environmental protections for clean air and clean water. to do this, the bill designated the department of commerce as the lead agency to carry out nepa reviews for any chips act project. it also clarifies that certain projects, certain chips projects like those already under development with necessary permits are not major federal actions and, therefore, are not subject to a nepa review. these measure

pa are putting in -- nepa are putting in, they're making it very difficult to expand the grid.nerators. elizabeth, what they're doing is turning to the generators and making it very difficult for them to increase the load that they generate. because they don't want gas, they don't want nuclear, they want renewables. but then you also look at the fact that transformers, they're going to increase the regulations on these electric power transformers our distributers use. and already are these transformers are at 95, 97% efficiency. so they want to change this. you've got a lot of costs there. you are not going to be able to get this. and so, therefore, who's going to pay for it? it's going to be the rate payer, both the commercial and the residential rate payer. elizabeth: wow. senator blackburn, we're going to stay on these stories. thank you so much for your insight and perspective and coming on the show. it's great to have you on. >>> okay, we're staying on the irs whistle blower hearing that's been going on. irs agents slamming the media, also the media and democrats for damag

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the state of michigan had introduced the national environmental policy act, which is abbreviated his nepa. i should say when i started at the epa a little aside here those of us who were new to the agency. we're giving document that was called frequently used acronyms and the document was three pages. two columns printed on both sides of the paper and those are the frequently frequently used acronym. so i'll try and avoid acronyms at the point that i can. but that bill that a piece of legislation was really really important because it established two things. it established number one that going forward when any project was done the people doing the project had to perform an environmental assessment and do an environmental impact statement and it also it also established in the executive office of the president ceq, which is the council on environmental quality, which was designed to serve in much of the way that the president's economic council did to serve as an advisory body to the president and the white house staff on environmental issues the bill passed by a huge bipartisan vote. whi

it just means you don't have to do additional nepa, the activity is presumed to not create a significant impact on the human environment. -- a new authority for emergency actions and inflation reduction act provided by 1.5 billion. when you combine that with the two bills. there was 800 million in the 2022 with -- the first cr from 2022. i apologize. and additional fuel reduction, hurricane recovery, fire recovery, 67 billion combined for forest service and d.o.i.. for fuel reduction safety. five in seven years. this is a significant amount of money. it was appropriated in complete ignorance to what the forest service and interior butter structures. are they struggle with that a little bit. but it's a substantial amount of money and my industry, where it exists, is there to help get more done on the ground. now, again, i mentioned fuel overstocking. these are caveats. we are not the panacea, there are no civil bullets. not all trees are fuel, not all fuels are trees, and not all timber harvest is fuel reduction work. it's, true they're all kind of other timber harvest. two and we create

digital nepa processes i think are something that are very exciting. and so we are happy to work with your office on that. just an inflation case, i was in a global tent protection role and i would just say that inflation is a huge issue in america for transportation projects. inflation was also an issue in the middle east for transportation projects, and the uk, in asia, and there is sort of a global issue with commodities now, and so i just wanted to highlight that it's a challenge we're dealing with globally, not just here in the u.s.. >> good point. i want to run another thing by you that also deals with these types of delays. congress updated the categorical exclusion in the iija four projects with limited federal funding. $6 million. it's not that inflation has made 6 million dollar contribution to federal funds to the project, such a small contribution that you cannot effectively use categorical exclusions. i am inclined to want to raise the -- up to 12 million. double it. so it can be meaningfully used instead of being almost irrelevant. do you

cost to - $4 billion to build what will increase the capacity to look at the permitting reform and nepa and energy policy that will ensure a safe and abundant supply of natural gas. >> do you believe in this country in north american continent that we have all the reserves of materials that we need to take care of her own needs of this country without imports and can we competitively if we could streamline some of the permitting or freeze in bed. could we take on ourselves with very little importing. >> great question on the nitrogen phosphate with the proper policies in place i think we can definitely take advantage of providing the nutrients of the farmers. potash is a little bit different story though the resource dependent of words been placed on the planet . . . >> are we wise to do it now or wait till the rest comes out? i'm not qualified to answer that question. we're hoping it's a ruling of the supreme court that might help us that we can change that ruling to where it'll give us clear ruse for our farmers won't be burdened by the regulation. >> all you'll do in a second is we h

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repealed interest leases, reinstated noncompetitive leasing, weakened health, and systematically gutted nepa. given the grim outlook anywhere beyond this extremist house majority, republicans decided that the only way to pass it would be to hold the american people hostage with their maga manufactured debt ceiling crisis and make the polluters over people act part of that ransom note. unfortunately for all of us, that wasn't the end of the pro-polluter crusade. industries favored g.o.p. enablers had already signaled they're planning to use the next must-pass legislation opportunity that they have, likely our appropriation bills and the next -- and -- as the next hostage situation. i guess the policy agenda that only polluters want isn't something you can pass through regular order in this house, which brings us back to where we are today. these resolutions attack the endangered species act, one of the country's most beloved and successful environmental laws. in the 50 years since it was signed into law, the e.s.a. has protected 99% of listed species from extinction and no time is more import