White House vows to veto House GOP energy bill: It 'would take us backward'

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The bill would replace 'pro-consumer policies with a thinly veiled license to pollute.'

President Biden speaks at an event marking the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on March 23. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe bill, H.R.

The White House added that the administration "wants to work in bipartisan manner with Congress to address lowering energy costs, permitting reform, and addressing energy challenges."The bill, announced by House Republicans earlier this month, would slash environmental regulations, expand oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters anda "partisan, dead-on-arrival and unserious proposal for addressing America's energy needs that they have laughingly labeled H.R. 1.

Republicans see the legislation as a starting point for a potential deal with the Senate to overhaul environmental permits, Axios previously reported.

 

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The House GOP's sweeping energy package would slash environmental regulations, expand oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters and repeal parts of Democrats' signature climate law, nick_sobczyk reported for AxiosPro earlier this month.

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