The White House expressed its opposition Monday — but did not issue veto threats — to legislation on the House floor as part of what Republican leaders are calling “energy week.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) toured an oil rig in Midland Monday as a way to kick-start the effort.
The broadest bill on the agenda, H.R. 7023, the “Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act,” would change the scope of the Clean Water Act. The White House said the legislation would undermine environmental protection.
Sponsored by Rep. David Rouzer (R-N.C.), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment, with input from other committee Republicans, the bill takes aim at federal permits issued for industrial projects and other facilities that pollute wetlands and surface waters.
