Senate Democrats are again challenging President Donald Trump’s energy emergency, a declaration critics claim wrongly boosts fossil fuels at the expense of renewable power.
Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, are looking to force another vote on legislation to reject the declaration after a loss earlier this year.
“We’re not just challenging this theoretical declaration of emergency,” Kaine said in an interview this week. “President Trump is canceling energy projects all over the country. … So now what we’re seeing is Donald Trump is the emergency.”
The president declared an energy emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which allows him to fast-track the approval of projects and explore the use of eminent domain for production, refining and generation.
