GOP leader calls for bipartisan deal on energy permitting
BPX Energy vice president of HSE and carbon Will Burton at an electrified oil well, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in Angeles.WASHINGTON - Rep. Cathy Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the new Republican chair of the powerful House and Energy Commerce Committee, said Wednesday that her party would work with Democrats to craft legislation to speed up the permitting of oil and gas and clean energy projects.
"I'm not saying they got it right, but it's a recognition," McMorris Rodgers, of Washington state, said at the American Petroleum Institute's State of American Energy Policy Breakfast in Washington."We must address this, and I'm hopeful this is one of those issues whose times has come." But interparty politics around climate change and opposition from Democrats' progressive wing to the continued use of fossil fuels have so far made legislation difficult.
After taking over the House energy committee this week, McMorris Rodgers name checked Democrats she wanted to work with at the oil industry event, including Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, of Houston, and Rep. Henry Cuellar, of Laredo.
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