Senate advances bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy

Key environmental groups come out against bipartisan Baaja bill over fears it could spur datacenters and ICE jails

The Senate on Monday advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for datacenters and other infrastructure projects, in the first major action since last week's election that soundly repudiated Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

It's a bill that would make it easier to build big infrastructure projects in America - everything from fossil fuel pipelines to transmission lines that would add more clean energy to the grid. And it would roll back environmental and social protections to achieve this goal. That is why climate advocates are torn over the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs act (Baaja).