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title: "House approves bill to speed up energy projects – with anti-wind amendment"
description: "The House passed the SPEED Act to expedite infrastructure and energy projects, including an anti-wind amendment to gain GOP support. The bill reduces environmental scrutiny and limits lawsuits against"
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published_at: "2025-12-18T19:50:41.000Z"
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# House approves bill to speed up energy projects – with anti-wind amendment

> The House passed the SPEED Act to expedite infrastructure and energy projects, including an anti-wind amendment to gain GOP support. The bill reduces environmental scrutiny and limits lawsuits against federally approved projects. It faces challenges in the Senate, needing at least seven Democratic votes. The anti-wind provision complicates Senate approval, casting doubt on a bipartisan deal.

The House on Wednesday passed a bill that aims to speed up infrastructure and energy projects — with a new anti-wind amendment in order to get GOP hardliners on board.

The vote was 221-196.

The SPEED Act aims to bolster infrastructure projects by decreasing the amount of scrutiny their environmental impacts face.

It would create new exclusions for which projects are subject to environmental reviews, restrict which environmental factors can be considered in a review of a project, and limit lawsuits against federally approved projects.

While bipartisan lawmakers have for years sought a deal to speed up energy and infrastructure projects — and the bill that passed the House on Wednesday represents a milestone in that effort — it could face setbacks in the Senate where at least seven Democratic votes are needed to pass the legislation.

This week, Republican hardliners threatened to tank a procedural vote to advance the SPEED Act unless an anti-wind provision was added.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), one of the offshore wind opponents, said that the new anti-wind amendment “protects actions to terminate offshore wind permits and leases.”

Prior to that maneuver, the legislation was already facing an uncertain future in the upper chamber.

The anti-wind provision added to get hardliners on board makes getting Senate Democratic support all the more difficult.

While senators negotiate out their own agreement, this week’s push by wind opponents casts some doubt on whether a deal is possible that will appease both them and enough Senate Democrats.

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