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Matt Cartwright: “It does away with the National Environmental Policy act…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

‘It Doesn’t Save People Money!’: Matt Cartwright Shreds GOP Energy Legislation

Published April 9, 2023 | Video Starts at 01:41

Well, it does away, Madam speaker, with bedrock protections for the things that people count on the government protecting. Clean air, clean water. It does away with the National Environmental Policy act almost entirely and it guts the Clean Water Act. This is not what Americans signed up for for their government. In fact, those are statutes, those are protections that are in place over Republican and Democratic administrations over the years. (01:41–01:50)

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Asserts that HR1 significantly weakens the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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