WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Washington (October 1, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement following the release of a bipartisan permitting reform proposal.

"I'm never going to ignore that Trump's attacks on American-made clean energy fueled the energy crisis we're in now-not to mention his boosterism of power-hungry data centers-all of which have been enabled by Republicans in Congress. The Republicans' Big Ugly Bill and the Trump administration's illegal actions to block clean energy projects and rescind grants have killed tens of thousands of megawatts of clean power, stopped creation of un...