Mark S.

New Mexico. Public lands, policy, and the fine print.

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@estee_nj 54 U.S.C. § 302706(b) requires Tribal consultation. If #BAAJA limits what courts can do when agencies violate Section 106, restoring those remedies takes another act of Congress. Unfortunately, a sacred site can be gone long before Congress votes again.

https://t.co/n3HSYOMgat

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@SenatorHeinrich More transmission can cut emissions. The #BAAJA manager’s amendment dropped parallel state and federal permit applications for major lines. Senator, which clean-energy transmission project needs Congress to weaken Section 106 to get built faster?

https://t.co/6mcYipO8Y5

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@SenatorHeinrich States and trade groups have won court challenges to Trump’s wind restrictions. Under #BAAJA’s new permit protections, they couldn’t bring those claims. Each developer would have to sue on its own. How does that get wind built faster?

https://t.co/LLBpQzAnSx

[NATHPO @NATHPO_org]

One less-talked-about flaw in BAAJA is the unfunded mandate it places on Tribal and State Historic Preservation Officers. Thanks to these Attorneys General for raising it - along with BAAJA's infringement on Tribal sovereignty - in their letter. (1/6)

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@guy_public COLT’s own executive director says a majority of its member Tribes opposed #BAAJA. COLT took no position on passage, and its first ask to Congress was to strike Title III. Here’s his account.

https://t.co/aAT74ztblq

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@rebeccanagle @NCAI1944 called for Congress to strike Title III of #BAAJA. COLT’s executive director says his coalition asked for the same thing, a majority of its member Tribes opposed the bill, and COLT took no position on passage.

https://t.co/aAT74ztblq

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@NCAI1944 called for Title III to be stripped. COLT’s director says his coalition asked for the same thing and congressional offices repeatedly refused. @NicoPortuondo, which offices told COLT that Title III had to stay in #BAAJA?

https://t.co/aAT74zsDvS

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@SiegelScribe COLT’s director says a majority of its member Tribes opposed #BAAJA and COLT asked Congress to strike Title III. Your story quotes the White House saying it met “the ask from the tribes.” Which Tribes did the White House mean?

https://t.co/aAT74zsDvS

[NATHPO @NATHPO_org]

Thanks to Governor-Elect Deb Haaland for listening to Tribal voices in New Mexico and opposing BAAJA, the Senate's permitting "reform" bill.
https://t.co/zCQjElP137

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@consumerpal @NCAI1944 flagged the 30-day clock in #BAAJA. If a Tribe misses the deadline to respond to a request for review, the agency moves ahead. Even if the Tribe rejoins consultation, the agency needn’t revisit its earlier findings. https://t.co/n3HSYOMgat

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@RepScottPeters Rhodium’s low-end estimate is 17 GW. You wrote 170. Its middle scenario adds 56 GW by 2040, less than a third of the floor you cite. And those numbers come from modeling the September #BAAJA bill. https://t.co/pA4V8euqVF

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@RepScottPeters @NCAI1944 has asked the Senate to drop Title III. Congress already requires Tribal consultation under Section 106. It’s in 54 U.S.C. § 302706(b). Which new right in #BAAJA are you saying Tribes lack today? https://t.co/6KP5DMlyDp

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@SenWhitehouse The study you linked projects just $4.17–$6.50 a month in household electricity savings in 2040, based on the September #BAAJA bill. Senator, how much would the average household actually save under the November substitute, and when? https://t.co/pA4V8euqVF

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@DebraBr81576310 @SenWhitehouse All for $5 dollars back in your wallet. Sounds like a good bargain, not. 🤮

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@ABQJournal @NCAI1944 asked the Senate to remove Division B, Title III. The All Pueblo Council of Governors says the bill was written without consulting Pueblos. @SenatorHeinrich, you told the Journal you’re open to amendments. Will you support striking Title III? https://t.co/n3HSYOMgat

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@willpoffwebster Cape Wind lost its power contracts in 2015 after missing financing and construction milestones. The D.C. Circuit left the lease and construction approval in place when it ruled on NEPA in 2016. Which #BAAJA provision would have kept those contracts alive? https://t.co/7d4HONX6o5

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Even @algore agrees:

That, yes, we need clean energy permitting reform, but as this bill currently stands, it “would be an extremely serious mistake” and “would do far more harm than good.”

We urge our Senate colleagues to reconsider and vote no, and to continue finding a path forward that respects Tribal sovereignty, protects the environment, and protects the rights of our communities ⬇️

[Jimmy Tobias @JamesCTobias]

Hmm

[Mark S. @Spruce505]

@JamesCTobias $4-7 a month?!?!! Wow.