“The Trump administration is not backing down from its discriminatory policies for approving wind and solar projects. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testified to Congress on Wednesday that his agency would appeal a recent district court ruling blocking it from enforcing these policies…
“During Wednesday’s hearing, Representative Susie Lee of Nevada told Burgum that his policies have ‘created a total permitting mess’ in her sunny home state, and asked him what the immediate impact of the court’s order was within his agency. When Burgum responded by denigrating the judge’s decision, Lee asked if he was planning to appeal the order.
“‘Yeah, absolutely,’ he said, asserting that ‘the idea that a single judge could decide’ how the agency conducts permitting ‘is absurd.’
“At the end of her questioning, Lee reaffirmed that the July 15 memo was the single thing stalling a permitting reform deal in Congress. ‘If you would just rescind that memo, we could get permitting reform passed this Congress, and we can start to talk about permitting all forms of energy.’”
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