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The U.S. Senate defeated House-approved legislation today that would have allowed all members to retain their conflicting stock investments and continue manipulating the stock market. Craig Holman, Ph.D., government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, released the following statement:

“This measure was a ruse, promoted by House Speaker Mike Johnson, to make it appear that congressional Republicans were tackling an ethical quagmire when, in fact, it would have accomplished very little. There was serious legislation to stop congressional insider trading, but Johnson would not bring up any of the serious proposals for a floor vote. Kudos to Senate Democrats for not falling for the ruse.”

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Sens. Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse today released a top-line summary of an agreement with Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Rep. Bruce Westerman to advance so-called “permitting reform.”

The legislative package, cynically titled the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” would provide massive long-term structural advantages to the fossil fuel industry and minimal short-term improvements to electricity transmission policy that might marginally benefit renewable energy. The legislation fails to meaningfully curb the accelerating build-out of data centers and artificial intelligence.

“This is a climate kill shot that condemns our most vulnerable communities to suffer decades more fossil fuel pollution. It’s absurd to ensure our planet chokes with greenhouse gases, gut endangered species protections and eviscerate the Clean Water Act for what seems to be a nearly meaningless victory against Trump’s war on offshore wind,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The minor benefits for renewable energy corporations are massively dwarfed by the gifts to the fossil fuel industry. If this grotesque legislation becomes law, the paltry increases in renewable energy will be instantly devoured by AI data centers. The only winners here are Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, tech oligarchs and the shareholders of fossil fuel companies.”

Today’s package contains numerous provisions that lock in thousands of fossil fuel projects, including oil and gas pipelines, LNG export terminals, and expanded fossil fuel drilling onshore and offshore approved by President Trump over the past two years. It also ensures that future fossil fuel pipelines and methane gas-generated electricity can never be challenged in court.

Additional provisions gut parts of the Clean Water Act, including the Section 401 authority of states to protect their rivers and streams from the impacts of building pipelines and the EPA’s Section 404(c) permit veto authority, which has been used to stop projects like the Pebble Mine in Alaska.

The legislation weakens the National Historic Preservation Act and Tribal consultations, leaving most Tribal nations with no meaningful way to protect their sovereignty when faced with potential fossil fuel projects on their lands.

In addition, the legislation guts the Endangered Species Act by allowing states to take over the Section 7 consultation process with minimal safeguards, turning one of the law’s strongest provisions into a state-run rubberstamp of dangerous projects. The deal also likely includes redefining the “best available science” and exempts the vast majority of damaging fossil fuel projects from any meaningful review of the threats and harms to imperiled wildlife and plants.

The legislation curtails the ability of individuals, nonprofits and communities to challenge fossil fuel projects by requiring courts to tip the scales in favor of the fossil fuel industry and making it impossible to bring an environmental justice claim.

“Two Senate Democrats are giving away our most cherished environmental laws based on fantastical models that project a renewable energy utopia. They’re rewarding a ruthless fossil fuel industry that will always put its quarterly profits ahead of a livable planet and future generations,” said Hartl. “Trump promised fossil fuel companies that he’d do everything in his power to assist them in his second term, and Sen. Heinrich and Sen. Whitehouse seem hellbent on helping Trump fulfill that promise. We’ll fight this disgraceful legislation to make sure it doesn’t become law.”

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Reabold Resources has detailed its work programme for the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire.

The majority investor in the West Newton licence today restated its plan to carry out lower-volume fracking, described as reservoir stimulation, on the West Newton-A2 well this autumn (quarter 4 2026).

In interim accounts, published today, Reabold also outlined longer-term commitments for West Newton, agreed with the industry regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).

The company did not mention a High Court challenge by a local campaigner against the Environment Agency over permission for lower-volume fracking at West Newton. It also did not refer to an court application by the campaigner for interim injunction to prevent the start of work.

Lower volume fracking and well test

Reabold said the operation to re-enter and recomplete the West Newton-A2 well was intended to establish sustained gas flow. It said the gross cost was expected to be £2.5m, excluding Reabold’s contingency of £2.1m.

The accounts said:

“The reservoir stimulation will aim to open fractures within the reservoir and then prop the fractures open using sand. The operation is designed to restore and enhance near wellbore permeability. The JV [joint venture] partnership believes this is a low risk and low-cost approach to derisk the project.”

Reabold also said its subsidiary, the West Newton site operator, Rathlin Energy, was “in the early stage of planning an EWT (extended well test)”, if the reservoir stimulation were successful.

This would allow an assessment of the extent and performance of the reservoir, required before deciding on full field development, Reabold said.

Reabold added:

“Until the reservoir characteristics are fully understood, through an EWT, it is too early to determine the most suitable method for transporting gas to market.”

Options include pipeline connection to the national transmission system or direct supply to local industrial users, Reabold said.

Commitments

In the near term, Reabold repeated there were proposals for small-scale electricity generation at West Newton-A to supply onsite computing or data centre facilities. It said this would reduce the need for flaring, and “minimise waste and environmental impact”.

Reabold said it had agreed with the NSTA to recomplete the WNA-2 well and carry out the EWT by 30 June 2027.

Other commitments listed in the accounts were:

• Investment decision and long-term EWT/Data centre development by 30 June 2028
• Investment decision and drill horizontal well by 30 June 2029
• Test horizontal well and submit a field development plan by 30 June 2030

Fundraising

Reabold said it had raised £4.3m in the first half of 2026.

Of the total, £1.9m was from a group of US investors, including £1.5m from Rohan Oza. In addition, £1.5m was from a placing and £0.9m from direct subscriptions.

Proceeds would be used on the recompletion and lower volume frack on the A2 well at West Newton-A in East Yorkshire.

Reabold has a 69.9% economic interest in the West Newton licence PEDL183. The company has a 79.8% interest in Rathlin Energy and a 16.67% direct interest in the licence.

Sachin Oza and Stephen Williams, Co-CEOs of Reabold, said:

“In Q4 2026, we expect to commence recompletion works at the West Newton A-2 well, a pivotal step towards unlocking the full value of our flagship UK project. The support shown by new and existing investors, including from a group of US strategic investors, enabled us to raise a total of £4.3 million during the period, positioning the Company to fund Reabold and Rathlin’s share of the recompletion.

Key figures

Unaudited interim accounts for six months to 30 June 2026

Loss for six months to June 2026: £1m (First half of 2025: loss of £1.4m)

Total comprehensive loss for the period: £1.453m (First half of 2025: loss of £1.435m). Reduced loss due to £0.6m gain on sale of its 47.6% share of LNEnergy to Beacon

Total exploration and evaluation assets (onshore and offshore in UK and beyond): £29.3m. (First half of 2025: £29m)

Total liabilities: £1.104m. (First half of 2025: £1.214m)

Decommissioning provision for West Newton: £0.8m (31 December 2025: £0.7m)

Net cash or operating activities: £0.9m (30 June 2025: £0.9m)

Today, the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch sued the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding the agency release records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) related to its abandonment of an Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) Federal Advisory Subcommittee.

EPA formed the Subcommittee in 2024 in response to a Food & Water Watch petition demanding EPA strengthen its rules to adequately regulate factory farm pollution under the Clean Water Act. To justify its petition denial, EPA claimed it lacked adequate information about factory farm pollution and committed to studying the problem via the Subcommittee. It then repeated this excuse before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in defending the legality of its petition denial. The Subcommittee met three times in 2024, but has not met since Trump took office in January 2025. Trump’s EPA has, with no communication or explanation, rendered the Subcommittee “inactive.”

After more than a year of radio silence, on February 18, 2026, Food & Water Watch requested records about the status of the Subcommittee and what led EPA to abandon it. Requested records include any communications between Trump’s EPA and factory farm industry groups related to the sidelining of the Subcommittee. Nearly eight months later, EPA has refused to produce a single record, in violation of FOIA.

Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen, a member of the abandoned Subcommittee, issued the following statement:

“EPA has never taken factory farm pollution seriously — under Trump, it has stopped even pretending. The fact that we have to litigate over a FOIA non-response is proof that EPA has abandoned its commitments to address this environmental and public health nightmare.

“Let’s be clear: EPA has more than enough information to know that its factory farm pollution rules are a failure and that it must act. The industry’s waste remains almost entirely unregulated, free to poison drinking water and ecosystems from coast to coast. Yet time and time again, EPA has chosen delay over action. This Subcommittee itself was a delay tactic — its abandonment doubles down on inaction. EPA’s continued stonewalling will not stand in court.”

Food & Water Watch is represented by the public interest law firm Eubanks & Associates, PLLC and its own Tarah Heinzen and Emily Miller.

BACKGROUND

Agriculture is the nation’s leading polluter of rivers and lakes, with factory farms, also called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), responsible for a significant share. U.S. factory farms produce 940 billion pounds of manure each year — twice as much as the sewage produced by the entire U.S. population. Much of it ends up in waterways, where it contributes to harmful algal blooms and dead zones, threatening aquatic ecosystems.

Factory farm pollution is driving nationwide public health crises, contaminating drinking supplies with pathogens and harmful chemicals including nitrates, which are linked to cancer, birth defects and more. Roughly 1 in 5 Americans on public water systems are exposed to dangerous nitrate levels.

In September 2023, 13 groups, led by Food & Water Watch, sued Biden’s EPA over the agency’s denial of a 2017 Food & Water Watch petition asking EPA to initiate a rulemaking to overhaul its ineffective factory farm regulations. The case challenged the EPA denial of the petition.

The petition and subsequent litigation sought to expand and strengthen factory farm pollution regulation under the Clean Water Act, regulation that the industry has largely evaded for more than 50 years. Today, EPA itself estimates that nearly 10,000 of the nation’s largest factory farms are illegally discharging pollution to waterways without the necessary Clean Water Act permits. Indeed, fewer than one third of the country’s largest factory farms operate with federal water pollution permits. The permits that do exist fail to effectively control the vast quantities of waste these polluting operations generate.

In October 2024, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the plaintiffs, accepting EPA’s assertion that findings from the Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) Federal Advisory Subcommittee were needed before EPA could be compelled to act.

The new board of Union Jack Oil has repeated its recommendation to shareholders to reject the takeover bid by Reabold Resources.

The offer period expires at 1pm on Friday 2 October.

Craig Howie
Photo: Craig Howie, LinkedIn

The executive chairman, Craig Howie, appointed at a special meeting last month (August 2026) urged shareholders to take no action and not to return Reabold’s acceptance form.

He said the new board, also comprising John Americanos, “continues to unanimously and unequivocally reject the offer”.

In Union Jack’s interim half-year accounts, published on 29 September 2026, he said:

“The new board believes that the offer does not represent fair value for the company, nor does it represent an adequate premium for ceding control to Reabold.”

Mr Howie said Reabold’s acceptance condition currently requires valid acceptances of not less than 75% of Union Jack shares by the revised unconditional date (2 October 2026).

Last week, Union Jack reported it had received irrevocable undertakings and letters of intent not to accept the offer from approximately 24.39% of the company’s existing issued ordinary share capital.

The most recent takeover statement from Reabold reports that at 1pm on 29 September 2026 the company had received acceptances of the offer from investors holding approximately 6.8% of the Union Jack capital.

Mr Howie also said the company’s priority was now to review Union Jack’s asset portfolio and central cost base, particularly directors’ remuneration.

He said three new non-executive directors were due to be announced next month (October 2026). The company also had a new team of restructuring and technical advisors, Mr Howie said.

Key figures for the six months ending 30 June 2026

Oil and gas revenues (UK and overseas): £1.56m (six months to 30 June 2025: £1.28m)

Cost of sales – operating costs: £0.776m (six months to 30 June 2025: £0.645m)

Gross profit: £0.56m (six months to 30 June 2025: £0.45m)

Operating loss: £0.941m (six months to 30 June 2025: £0.603m)

Net loss before impairment: £0.42m (2025: £489,674)

Loss before taxation: £0.896m (six months to 30 June 2025: £0.489m)

Total assets: £19m (six months to 30 June 2025: £23.543m)

Total liabilities: £3.07m (six months to 30 June 2025: £2.162m)

Net assets: £15.933m (2025: £21.381m)

Closing net cash: £0.52m (accounting for £1m loan from Egdon Resources)

The Senate may imminently announce a permitting reform bill that would gut bedrock environmental laws to enable a massive buildout of fossil fuel infrastructure, data centers, and other projects that harm our climate. This “dirty deal” offers even greater concessions to Big Oil and Big Tech than previous iterations of the bill, while drastically curtailing communities’ ability to voice their concerns about polluting projects planned for their area.

In response, Oil Change International U.S. Campaigns Manager Collin Rees said:

“This backdoor ‘dirty deal’ will worsen the climate crisis and put families at even greater risk of losing their homes and loved ones to extreme weather. The science is clear: There are no new fossil fuel projects compatible with a climate-safe future. Yet this ‘dirty deal’ would make it easier and faster for fossil fuel companies to steamroll community opposition to their polluting, climate-wrecking projects.

“This ‘dirty deal’ threatens to raise electricity prices for working families by accelerating the buildout of energy-guzzling AI data centers and liquefied natural gas export projects. Our recent research shows that the Trump administration’s support for reckless AI development and greater gas exports drives up energy costs for households.

“We all deserve a voice in the decisions that impact our lives. The ‘dirty deal’ shuts communities out of decisionmaking spaces, especially the Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities that are disproportionately harmed by polluting fossil fuel projects. We urge all senators to stand firm against this bill.”

Most commonly, building operators are using the tax credit to install battery storage systems that can leverage lower-cost electricity rates, says an executive with tax-credit consulting firm Alliant.

An Arizona tour company is suing the Trump administration over higher national park fees for people who don’t live in the United States, arguing the policy goes beyond the administration’s legal authority.

Under the Trump administration’s policy, nonresidents are charged an additional $100 per person at some of the nation’s most-visited national parks, and nonresident annual passes now cost $250, compared with $80 for residents. Across Arizona Tours says that the Interior department never had the authority to set the fees, and that only Congress can authorize federal fees.

The tour company is represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a libertarian law firm that focuses on property rights and limiting federal regulatory power. PLF has historically been on the opposing side of conservation groups, like in Sackett v. EPA (2023), which sharply narrowed Clean Water Act protections for wetlands.

Across Arizona Tours’ Carole Stapleton spoke with 80 to 90 potential customers who didn’t book a tour. Many of them cited the higher fees.

Businesses near the Grand Canyon warned about this before the fee took effect in January. About 14 percent of the park’s nearly 5 million annual visitors come from abroad. Last December, Julie Aldaz, general manager of the Red Feather Lodge in Tusayan, said business was already down 15 to 18 percent.

An Interior spokesperson told The Hill that foreign tourists “are paying higher entrance fees to help maintain our parks and improve visitor experiences.” But the surcharge brought in $22.5 million in the first half of 2026. Over roughly the same period, the administration moved at least $90 million in park fee revenue to Washington, D.C., for July 4 fireworks and President Donald Trump’s beautification projects.

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Quote of the day

It’s a myth that in order to make money, you have to trash the environment or that if you protect the environment, it’s going to cost our nation in lost economic productivity.”

—The late businessman and conservationist Ted Turner, speaking with Mountain Outlaw in 2017, Mountain Journal

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We have a new fat Bear Champ! Bear 89 nicknamed “Backpack”

As Fat Bear Week comes to a close, we’re celebrating more than crowned champions and epic bear glow‑ups, we’re celebrating all of you!

Your votes, your posts, your favorite bear campaigns, and your shared love for Katmai’s wild places turned this week into a collective story shaped by thousands of voices. It’s a reminder that just like America’s 250th anniversary, traditions endure because people keep them alive.

This year, we honored resilience in our bears and in our nation, recognizing the landscapes, communities, and shared stories that connect us. Thanks for being part of the journey. Until next year, enjoy the bears, salmon, and human connection that keeps Katmai’s ecosystems alive.

Photo and graphics courtesy of Explore.org and Sara Wolman

 

(Featured image: Tourists at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Photo by Marek Slusarczyk, Wikimedia Commons)

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The Republican-controlled Senate will soon formally announce a legislative “permitting reform” deal to speed the development of AI data centers and energy infrastructure. We expect the Senate will then rush through a vote in the lame duck session immediately after the midterm elections, sending the bill to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives before a new Congress is seated in January 2027. While the text of the bill has not yet been released, credible intelligence suggests that the bill, if passed, would prove to be the largest rollback of environmental and public health protections in U.S. history, weakening the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and more.

The bill would erode state and Tribal authority provided by the Clean Water Act to review and certify federal permits to protect that state or Tribe’s water resources. The bill would also hand developers new exemptions from Clean Water Act permitting for natural gas pipelines and other infrastructure. These provisions would compound the Trump administration’s own deregulatory attacks on the fundamental law  and the Supreme Court’s disastrous 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision, which radically scaled back the Clean Water Act’s jurisdictional scope. In New Mexico, this resulted in the loss of federal protections to upward of 96% of the state’s rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands.

The deal would also weaken Americans’ right to participate in federal planning and decision-making processes, setting the pace of permitting based on developer interests, rather than those of the community. Worse, the deal would weaken the public’s ability to seek justice in federal court when their interests are threatened or harmed, tilting the scales in favor of development interests. Adding salt to the wound, the bill would even create a new cause of action for AI hyperscalers, fossil fuels, and other development interests to challenge legal, regulatory, and other requirements that they deem treat them “unfairly.”

While proponents justify the deal on the basis it will prevent the Trump administration’s obstruction of renewable energy projects, the legislation would do no such thing. Instead, it is predicated on a promise by President Trump that he will merely “ease” his obstruction, based on reporting, of only 30 out of 300 renewables projects. Given the administration’s chronic pattern of lies, deceptions, and broken promises, that so-called “win” is illusory.

Interests promoting the bill also claim it will set the stage for future presidents, once Trump is removed from office or his term ends, to accelerate the buildout of renewable energy infrastructure by providing developers with permitting “certainty” and “parity.” A close read of relevant “certainty” and “parity”  legislation introduced into Congress over the past year demonstrates that this is not the case and that the deal would instead hobble future presidents, handing the keys for the country’s energy future over to developers and erecting barriers in the way of climate, conservation, and environmental justice action that seeks to address the harms caused by AI data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure.

The permitting deal’s provisions risk grave, irreparable harm to the western U.S., and not just relative to clean water. More than 45 million acres of pristine roadless lands in national forests across 36 states and Puerto Rico, the entire 245 million acre public lands system managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and beloved landscapes such as Greater Chaco in New Mexico are all at risk. In all three cases, the Trump administration is actively rescinding critical conservation and community protections, again with the intent to commodify and exploit these public lands for fossil fuel and other resource extraction and again, for AI data centers. Once these protections are rescinded by the Trump administration, the permitting deal would drastically accelerate the exploitation of these public lands.

The plague of data centers across the U.S. is of particular concern, with more than 2,000 planned that would consume more than 387,000 megawatts of electricity. Critically, the Trump administration is now actively siting AI data centers on public lands in multiple states, including Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming, and these efforts will only intensify in the coming months.

“The permitting deal is a betrayal of public lands, water and wildlife, and environmental justice values that Westerners depend on for clean air and water, places to hike, hunt, and fish, and the inestimable sense of freedom the West provides us all,” said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center based in New Mexico. “Sen. Heinrich has built a name for himself as a champion of these values, but credible intelligence indicates he is poised to hand the Trump administration a major political win that erases that legacy in service of AI hyperscaler, energy, and finance lobbyists. We hope this is not the case. But there is an acute risk he is making a strategic mistake that will hobble the ability of future administrations to enact an ambitious climate and conservation agenda. We desperately need action that opens new doors to a thriving, prosperous world that respects Westerners’ values, not bills like this that bulldoze us and our way of life.”

In this full context, the Western Environmental Law Center urges Congress to do the following:

• Do not betray progressive climate, conservation, and environmental justice values essential to Westerners.
• Build policy ideas that respect people and place and transparently assess, rather than bulldoze over, the tradeoffs between climate and conservation action and infrastructure development.
• Move a standalone grid modernization, transmission bill in the 120th Congress.
• Support state-level climate action action and embrace federal-level strategic patience.
• Develop policy reforms that will create strong, mission-driven federal agencies that serve the public interest—not corporate technology, energy, and finance interests.

“Congress cannot legislate its way out of the multiple crises we face and serve the public by surrendering to AI hyperscaler, fossil fuel, and finance interests,” said Schlenker-Goodrich. “But it can exhibit strategic patience and methodically build power for change with people and communities that can be leveraged once a new Congress is seated in January 2027. That empowers us to fight our way out of the ruins of the Trump administration, together. Making a deal with the devil fails the American people here.”

Contact:

Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Western Environmental Law Center, 575-751-0351, eriksg@westernlaw.org

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byPrimrose Hill Lecture Series Part of the Primrose Hill Lecture Series 2026 collection Church of St Mary the virgin Primrose HillLondon, Greater London Wednesday 30 September  •  7 PM – 9 PM Overview

Environmental lawyer Dan Leader in conversation with author & journalist Steve Crawshaw

Suing Shell: What It Takes to Hold a Polluter to Account 7pm, Wednesday 30th September

Environmental lawyer Dan Leader in conversation with author & journalist Steve Crawshaw

Q: WHAT HAPPENS, when ordinary people demand that one of Britain’s largest companies, Royal Dutch Shell, cleans up its pollution?

A: For most of corporate history, the answer has been: very little.

Dan Leader, leading environmental and human rights lawyer, has spent a decade trying to change that, representing more than 13,000 African farmers and fishing communities whose lives have been devastated by oil spills, and taking Shell all the way to the UK Supreme Court.

The full trial for remedy and justice begins next year, in a David and Goliath battle whose ending is not yet written – one that could reshape what polluters owe the communities and the climate they harm. It is one of the most important environmental cases of our time.

Dan will be in conversation with author, journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw, whose acclaimed new book Prosecuting the Powerful asks the question at the heart of this conversation: can the law reach those who believe themselves untouchable?

The lecture forms part of St Mary’s programme for Creationtide, the Church’s annual season of prayer and action for the environment, and marks a step in our journey towards a bronze Eco Church award.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Climate Justice Alliance, GreenLatinos, Indigenous Environmental Network, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and Western Environmental Law Center led a broad coalition of national organizations representing thousands of frontline, environmental justice, and Indigenous communities across the U.S. to oppose a dangerous deregulatory permitting reform proposal, disingenuously titled the ‘Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act’, currently being negotiated in Congress. We share a deep frustration and outrage over this sidelining effort which shows continued disregard for communities who have spent years demanding policies that protect their health, rights, neighborhoods, and pocketbooks, while also benefitting the larger public good. 

We issued the following joint statement:

We cannot allow the lies to continue, as the facts are clear: If this backroom permitting reform deal is pushed through, it will enable a no-guardrails buildout of dangerous projects that will harm our health and environment, drive up energy costs, and violate our rights. This will be especially harmful for communities of color and lower income neighborhoods already overburdened by pollution and climate impacts. Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and working class white communities disproportionately live near fossil fuel infrastructure and endure greater climate impacts due to a legacy of prejudicial redlining practices. Legislation like this claims to advance clean energy, but will only lock in more fossil fuel projects for decades to come, continuing the immoral and damaging practice of using vulnerable communities as sacrifice zones. 

Environmental justice communities are sick and tired of being left out of conversations that impact them most, and yet this deal was negotiated in the dark and follows years of similar bad faith legislation communities successfully opposed (e.g. SPEED Act, EPRA). At a time when we need strong leadership to defend our rights from an administration putting polluter profits over our lives, we instead get another effort to remove accountability and democratic processes that give industry a free pass to harm. As energy demand grows, especially from rapidly expanding hyperscale data centers, Congress must not accelerate detrimental infrastructure buildout by shifting its costs, consequences, and risks onto the rest of us.

Communities have already shared practical and evidence-based policy solutions for building clean energy while safeguarding our rights, health, environment, and democratic participation, including:

1. Investing in federal agency capacity through funding and training to build expertise on clean energy development and community engagement; 
2. Embedding early and meaningful community engagement into permitting processes; 
3. Establishing robust environmental and public health analysis that includes cumulative impacts; 
4. Addressing transmission barriers acceleration directly rather than weakening environmental review; and
5. Increasing transparency via publicly accessible information on permitting status, project details, environmental and public health impacts. 

These recommendations are shaped by successful project examples, literature review, and expertise demonstrated in the NEPA Does Not Delay StoryMap report, and are core aspects of the community-informed A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act. 

This permitting reform proposal cannot be separated from the broader rollback of environmental and public health protections, as well as democratic rights under attack by the Trump administration. If passed, this package would further limit communities’ ability to protect themselves from harmful projects by completely gutting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Endangered Species Act, among other bedrock environmental laws. In addition to being a climate-killer, this bill would leave Tribal lands, sacred sites, and historical and cultural items at risk of permanent destruction by restructuring and undermining the government-to-government consultation process under section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. 

Our coalition of environmental justice leaders and advocates across the environmental, conservation, public-health, climate, and energy movements and our partners will continue to oppose deregulatory permitting proposals that put corporate interests ahead of communities, and will advance solutions that deliver clean, affordable energy while protecting our health, democratic rights, and our shared environment.

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Mar Zepeda Salazar, legislative director at Climate Justice Alliance: “Six years, the same message from frontline communities: listen to us, protect our health, and build solutions with us. Instead, each version of this backroom deal gets worse, and now, rather than listening to their own constituents, politicians are trying to force through legislation that will allow data centers to explode at an even faster pace, even as families across the political spectrum are saying enough is enough. Announcing a deal before the public can even see the bill is simply undemocratic. They may call it affordability, but affordable for whom and at what cost? You don’t make energy cheaper by sacrificing our health, our neighborhoods, and our children’s future. We’ve offered common-sense solutions. We’ve helped craft better policy. And once again, communities are being sidelined for industry gain under the very risky assumption that we won’t make our voices heard at the ballot box.”

Irene Burga, Climate Justice & Clean Air Director, GreenLatinos: “Frontline communities should not have to sacrifice their health, their voices, or their rights in the name of faster permitting. Latino communities already bear disproportionate pollution from highways, oil and gas operations, warehouses, ports, and other industrial facilities. Weakening environmental review and public participation will only make it easier to pile new harms onto communities already carrying far too much. Congress should be strengthening the protections communities rely on — not bargaining them away.” 

Leslie Fields, Chief Federal Officer at WE ACT for Environmental Justice: “Here we go again, with the low down dirty deal of permitting reform redux. We must break the cycle of sacrificing vulnerable communities of color and lower income neighborhoods through deregulatory permitting reform. This proposal, like those before it, does not appropriately account for the burdens it will impose on communities, while vastly overstating the clean energy benefits it will achieve. It will instead further condemn communities of color and low income communities to even more environmental, health, and economic degradation. The dual climate and public health crises demand urgent energy policies that advance an affordable and fair clean energy future through processes that actually protect and support communities.”

Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center based in New Mexico: “The permitting deal is a betrayal of public lands, water and wildlife, and environmental justice values. Senator Heinrich has built a name for himself as a champion of these values, but he is poised to sweep aside that legacy in service of AI hyperscaler, energy, and finance lobbyists. This deal will also hand the Trump administration a major political win that will hobble the ability of future administrations to put in place an ambitious climate agenda that opens new doors to a thriving, prosperous world that respects—and does not, as this deal would do, bulldoze over—people and place.”

Jordan Harmon, Policy Specialist at Indigenous Environmental Network: “Indigenous Peoples deserve better than being treated as a negotiation pawn in backroom permitting deals. Any member of Congress who would vote to destroy the Tribal consultation process and violate the Treaty and trust obligations is no climate defender and no ally to Tribes.”

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More detailed information and resources about permitting reform follows:

Permitting reform: myths vs facts
Permitting reform and communities fact sheet
CJA July 20th bicameral letter on permitting
Post about NEPA/permitting

 

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The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis.

While gas prices are surging towards levels not seen since the 2022 energy crisis, the UK has been generating record amounts of power from wind and solar, up 14% year-on-year.

This unprecedented clean-power generation is directly cutting the need for gas-fired electricity, which is down by nearly 10% year-on-year in 2026 to date.

In total, wind and solar have generated a record 41% share of the UK’s electricity needs in 2026 to date, compared with 25% from gas, according to Carbon Brief’s analysis.

The figure below shows that wind and solar generation has avoided the need for UK gas imports worth a total of £5.9bn since the outbreak of war between the US and Iran in February 2026.

The analysis shows that these avoided gas imports would have required the UK to secure the equivalent of more than 100 additional tanker deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The £1.3bn import saving in September 2026 to date is the result of record wind and solar output, at nearly 10 terawatt hours (TWh), combined with surging gas prices.

Wholesale gas prices in the UK have remained elevated ever since Russia cut off supplies to Europe in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Gas averaged 90p per therm from 2023 until the start of this year, roughly three times above 2019 prices, before the Covid and Ukraine crises.

Since the outbreak of war in the Middle East in March, gas prices have climbed higher still, averaging 134p per therm or nearly four times the level seen in 2019.

In September 2026 to date, gas prices have averaged 189p per therm, reaching their highest level since the global energy crisis in 2022, as shown in the figure below.

UK gas prices are spiking again because winter is approaching – meaning higher demand for heating – and there is no end in sight for the Hormuz crisis.

At the same time, European gas stocks are low. This means Europe will have to compete with Asia to secure the cargoes of LNG needed to keep warm.

In the UK, high wholesale gas prices are hitting household gas bills under the price cap set by energy regulator Ofgem – but thanks to clean energy, electricity bills have barely increased.

From this Thursday, 1 October, typical household gas bills will be 33% higher than they were in April, some £200 per year, according to thinktank Nesta.

In contrast, household electricity bills will only have risen 4%, according to Nesta’s analysis.

Andrew Sissons, director for sustainable future at Nesta, explained in a social media post that “the link between electricity and gas prices has already begun to break”.

The UK and other fossil-fuel importing nations are being hit not only by high gas prices, but also by high prices for oil, diesel and other refined fuels. The EU has reportedly had to pay an extra €100bn for fossil-fuel imports since the start of the crisis.

For example, UK diesel prices this week hit record levels of nearly £2 per litre. In contrast, recent Carbon Brief analysis shows that electric cars are up to nine times cheaper to drive.

In her speech to the Labour party conference this week, energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said that energy bills were high because the UK is “exposed to global fossil-fuel markets”.

In his own conference speech, prime minister Andy Burnham said the expansion of clean energy was easing the impact of high gas prices on electricity bills. He said:

“We are already taking more control of our electricity prices with a massive expansion of home-grown renewables and nuclear. I have asked Miatta to speed up the breaking of the link between what we pay for power at home and the international gas market, to get bills down.”

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