This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Energy Bill Now Full Of Horrible Environmental Provisions

When the Senate first started debating an energy bill, the legislative proposal was light on broad attacks on environmental protections, and concentrated on infrastructure improvements and energy efficiency. Environmentalists, in turn, expressed cautious optimism about the first major update to the nation’s energy policy in eight years.

“We’ve always been concerned that this was going to be a Christmas tree for drilling proposals, or to weaken some of the measures the president’s done on climate [change],” Athan Manuel, director of the lands protection program for the Sierra Club, told ThinkProgress in February. “It hasn’t played out that way.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/26/3782311/enviros-frown-on-house-energy-bill/