If I’ve learned anything after a decade in Congress, it’s that Big Oil and its congressional allies never miss an opportunity to push the fossil fuel agenda.  So it’s no surprise that right now, fossil fuel advocates are trying to hitch a ride on the historic clean energy investment opportunities in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA). … A major new hazardous gas leak is reported to the federal government every 40 hours. The really big ones make headlines, such as when catastrophic explosions of natural gas pipelines and liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities kill people; or when projects like the Keystone Pipeline spring a leak and dump thousands of barrels of oil into vulnerable ecosystems and communities…
-Written by Congressman Jared Huffman, who represents the 2nd District of California and is a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.​