House Panel Clears NEPA Revisions On Party Lines, Setting Up Floor Fight

The House Natural Resources Committee has voted largely along party lines to approve legislation overhauling the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and expediting environmental permitting, though absent a last-minute agreement, the bill will almost certainly face a raucous floor fight when it comes up for a House vote. The committee Nov. 20 voted 25-18 to approve H.R. 4776 , a bill sponsored by committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) that is known as the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED)...