Bill Seeks To Fight Anti-Energy Policies

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., has introduced a bill, the “Ensuring National Security Using Reliable Energy Act,” to help ensure Montanans have access to reliable and affordable energy.

“What’s typically seen as a nonpartisan agency, [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] has become the latest arm of Biden’s partisan, woke green agenda,” Daines said. “While pipelines are the safest, most environmentally friendly way to transport natural gas, FERC is creating new burdensome barriers preventing new ones from being built. For the sake of Montana families and our national security, we need to be supporting American energy and American pipelines — not setting up new roadblocks.”

This legislation will stop the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent policy statements that apply to natural gas pipelines and related infrastructure from going into effect until natural gas and electric reliability is secure and electricity and natural gas prices have stabilized.