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AI is greedy for energy, water, and land. The BAAJA “permit reform” bill will kill our protections. Tell Congress: No dirty data-center deal in the lame duck! A project of Hill Heat.
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Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7h agoMEMO TO @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social for this #LAMEDUCK: - NOT ONE VOTE ANY OF TRUMP'S NOMINEES - NOT ONE VOTE FOR ANY "BIPARTISAN" BS BILL WITH TRUMP'S LOSER PARTY. WAIT FOR 120TH CONGRESS AND LEGISLATE ON DEMOCRATIC TERMS.
"BAAJA is dangerous." - @keyachatterjee.bsky.social Vote. Then tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
Free DC Founder: 'BAAJA Is Dangerous'
Free DC co-founder and executive director Keya Chatterjee warns that the industrial-expediting bill BAAJA (S. 5653) would give Trump more power to damage Washin...
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As Americans defend democracy today, veteran climate attorney David Bookbinder warns that BAAJA, the lame-duck Congress's top priority, is "a serious threat to American democracy." Vote. Then tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
David Bookbinder: BAAJA Is 'A Serious Threat To American Democracy'
In a recent public letter, David Bookbinder, one of the nation’s most prominent centrist climate-law experts, described the Senate industrial-expediting bill BA...
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"BAAJA undermines bedrock environmental laws while granting the fossil fuel industry more power, more access to public lands, and less accountability." - @ucs.org Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
The Senate Permitting Deal Could Lock in Fossil Fuel Dominance for Generations
To address the energy affordability crisis and climate crisis, what's needed most are critical improvements to the power grid that will accelerate deployment of clean energy across the country.
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No Dirty Data Center Deal — Stop BAAJA
AI is greedy for energy, water, and land. The BAAJA “permit reform” bill will kill our protections. Tell Congress: No dirty data-center deal in the lame duck!
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Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 21h agoI modeled the potential economic and environmental impacts of BAAJA, the permitting bill the Senate will soon vote on. Under assumptions that I consider plausible, BAAJA likely increases domestic greenhouse gas emissions and domestic mortality attributable to air pollution. kevinjkircher.com/baaja/
V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data...
“Anything where you’re altering the built environment or affecting areas covered by the National Historic Preservation Act, which of course there’s tons of those in D.C., will be much easier to bulldoze. That’s kind of the point of the bill.” Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
Enviro lawyers say the permitting bill could aid Trump's DC renovations
The bipartisan legislation is intended to speed energy projects, but environmental lawyers warn it could also weaken legal challenges to the president’s plans for major renovations in the nation’s cap...
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"BAAJA increases all of the following: Revenues and jobs in both clean electricity and fossil fuel industries, with larger increases for fossil fuels; domestic energy-related greenhouse gas emissions; domestic mortality attributable to air pollution from fossil fuels; and fossil fuel exports."
Potential impacts of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act on United States energy systems
The United States Senate will likely vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) in early November. BAAJA would reshape, in profound and uncertain ways, the federal laws and pro...
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No Dirty Data Center Deal — Stop BAAJA
AI is greedy for energy, water, and land. The BAAJA “permit reform” bill will kill our protections. Tell Congress: No dirty data-center deal in the lame duck!
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Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · yesterday"Do you think that the construction of new data centers is..." Bad: 52% Good: 26% Neutral: 14% YouGov / Oct 30, 2026
Brutal analysis of #BAAJA from the @detentionwatchnetwork.org: "this bill would pave a path for detention expansion by making immigration detention facilities easier to build and much harder to stop."
BAAJA Analysis of Impact on Detention Expansion
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act Will Accelerate the Expansion of Deadly Immigration Detention Facilities. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) is slated for a ...
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This is why data-center backers are so desperate to pass #BAAJA in the lame duck - they know they won't get the same giveaways with the next Congress. Nodirtydatacenterdeal.com!
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5d agoMike Rogers owns up to $2.6 million of investments in companies that would benefit from the data center boom. He's not looking out for you. He's looking out for his investments.
"If NEPA becomes utterly toothless, as it would under BAAJA, I wonder how state Attorneys General and our lawyers at Earthjustice could stop ICE from detaining thousands of people in Amazon-style warehouses as we have so far been able to do." - @abbiedillen.bsky.social
What Will BAAJA Do? Whatever the Trump Administration Wants
BAAJA would create more legal runway for this president to make corrupt deals and greenlight harmful projects of all kinds.
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Say BOO 👻 to BAAJA! 🎃 It's a ZOMBIE 🧟 MONSTER 🧌 of a bill! Big Oil and Big Tech VAMPIRES 🧛 are trying to TRICK you into giving them TREATS! 🍫 If it passes, it's DEATH 💀 to our air, land, water, and history! Send a letter to your reps asking WITCH 🧙♀️ way they'll vote! Nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
No Dirty Data Center Deal — Stop BAAJA
AI is greedy for energy, water, and land. The BAAJA “permit reform” bill will kill our protections. Tell Congress: No dirty data-center deal in the lame duck!
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As currently drafted, I am strongly opposed to the Senate permitting deal (S. 5653) ⬇️
"Shame on you, Heinrich. I am sick and tired of getting people elected only for them to find a little bit of power and do this to our people. Shame on you, Heinrich!" - Ahtza Chavez, @nativevoters.bsky.social on Heinrich's #BAAJA sellout.
"This bill is a slap in the face to me because Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, back in 2004, visited Port Arthur and took my toxic tour... We will fight back. We will resist. We will kill this bill." - John Beard Jr., Port Arthur Climate Action Network, on #BAAJA with @cjaourpower.bsky.social
Carl Pope, former ED of the Sierra Club, calls #BAAJA "a shotgun marriage: useful reforms surrounded by provisions that would weaken environmental safeguards, increase energy costs and diminish public accountability." Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
BUILD WHAT CLEAN ENERGY NEEDS; CLEAN UP OIL AND GAS: NO POISON PILLS REQUIRED
PART ONE: FIX BAAJA PERMITTING LANGUAGE BAAJA: Illusory Bipartisanship
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This Friday at 1 pm ET, hear from Tribal leaders and federal Indian policy experts about BAAJA's many threats to indigenous lands, cultural sites, and tribal sovereignty. Register: climatejusticealliance.org/panel
"Like all great deities, it demands sacrifice." Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
AI has come for Arizona’s water
The state is barreling toward a water crisis. Data centers might be the breaking point.
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NAACP warns BAAJA "could weaken environmental oversight, limit public participation, and make it harder for communities to hold polluters accountable." Energy policy *is* civil rights policy. Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
Community Vision for Permitting Reform
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Earthjustice President Abbie Dillen warns: "BAAJA would create more legal runway for this president to make corrupt deals and greenlight harmful projects of all kinds."
Earthjustice@earthjustice.org · 7d agoJohn Podesta just weighed in on BAAJA. Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social's take here.
Archeologist Ira Beckerman warns that if BAAJA passes, "you could build data centers along the property line of the Gettysburg Battlefield and the public, governmental officials, or the State Historic Preservation Office would have no recourse." #BAAJA
BAAJA: An Open Letter to My Senators
The Gettysburg National Tower, being demolished July 3, 2000. Dear Senators Fetterman and McCormick, I am writing you with regard to the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. …
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Law scholar Sara Gonzalez-Rothi on BAAJA's dangerous rewrite of the Clean Water Act: "The price of certainty for developers cannot be ambiguity for the agencies or the public. Perhaps in the business of statutory drafting, if it is not transparent, it shouldn’t be acceptable."
The Muddy Waters of BAAJA - Yale Journal on Regulation
Introduced in September by Senators Capito, Lee, Whitehouse, and Heinrich, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) has been the subject of much scholarly analysis and critiq...
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Yesterday, hundreds of students across New Mexico walked out of classes to stop the state from being taken over by data centers, calling out BAAJA, Sen. Martin Heinrich's dirty data center deal.
New Mexico students walk out of classes to protest data centers, US Sen. Heinrich’s permitting bill • Source New Mexico
New Mexico students left classes Tuesday in Albuquerque and Santa Fe to protest data centers and urge New Mexico leaders to stop them.
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Brooklyn! Meet your neighbors on Friday, November 6 and tell Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to kill S. 5653, the dirty data center deal!
Brooklyn, NY: Schumer & Jeffries, Stop the Dirty Data Center Deal! · Food & Water Watch
**Join us for an urgent protest to send a message to Senator Schumer and Representative Jeffries: Stop the Dirty Data Center Deal!** Congress is poised to consider legislation that would drive a mass...
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"I think they have handed Trump not just a loaded gun, but they’ve handed him a loaded Howitzer to go after public lands, to permit stuff that even if it’s illegal can’t be reversed by the courts." - John Podesta on #BAAJA We agree! Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
No Dirty Data Center Deal — Stop BAAJA
AI is greedy for energy, water, and land. The BAAJA “permit reform” bill will kill our protections. Tell Congress: No dirty data-center deal in the lame duck!
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Developers are proposing gargantuan hyperscalers on public lands, anticipating #BAAJA's elimination of legal protections for the land, water, and wildlife.
BLM evaluating pitch for second data center on public land in Idaho - East Idaho News
TWIN FALLS (Idaho Statesman) — The Bureau of Land Management is evaluating a California energy company’s preliminary pitch to build a 3,700-acre data center on public land north of Twin Falls. Copia P...
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Trump won't even stick by Flávio Bolsonaro and @whitehouse.senate.gov and @heinrich.senate.gov say they can trust him to be their friend
No Dirty Data Center Deal!@nodirtydatacenterdeal.com · last wk.Senators: "The promise of BAAJA will only succeed if President Trump takes care that it is faithfully executed. The Trump administration’s record gives us no basis to assume that he will." @duckworth.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov Download the letter
Senators: "The promise of BAAJA will only succeed if President Trump takes care that it is faithfully executed. The Trump administration’s record gives us no basis to assume that he will." @duckworth.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov Download the letter
Wednesday, October 28 at 11 am: Join Rep. Rashida Tlaib and EJ leaders KeShaun Person, Jordan Harmon, Daisy Maldonado, Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, and Daisy Maldonado to learn about and join the fight against #BAAJA @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @riogranderift.bsky.social
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Press Conference: Environmental Leaders & Lawmakers Spotlight Serious Concerns with the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act. After registering, y...
Speakers: KeShaun Pearson, director of the Memphis Community Against Pollution Daisy Maldonado, Fight Chihuahuan Desert Xtraction Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of Western Environmental...
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