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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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Tell your members of Congress: “Commit to vote against #BAAJA and pledge to negotiate a clean deal for American communities, workers, and the climate in the 120th Congress.” nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
No Dirty Data Center Deal
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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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."
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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.&nbsp…
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October 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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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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October 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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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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October 28, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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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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October 27, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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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

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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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October 27, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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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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October 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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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
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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

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"...Beyond consideration of the actual text, 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...." ... "No one has explained why a Senator from a targeted State should help the Trump administration fast-track fossil fuel projects while it refuses to restore funding that Trump officials admitted was terminated on an illegal, partisan basis." ... Ultimately, FERC’s authority would be only as fair as the officials who exercise it. And we cannot ignore President Trump’s Executive Order 14215, which asserts President Trump’s “supervision and control” over independent regulatory agencies, a statutory category that includes FERC, or the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which held that President Trump may remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will—a holding that is nearly certain to extend to FERC commissioners who also perform executive functions. Put simply, the Trump administration confirmed it terminated energy awards for States based on whether President Trump won or lost the State in the 2024 presidential election. Why should we be confident that a Trump administration, empowered with national authority to overrule States, would treat this bill differently?" "It would be compelling if, before the motion to proceed vote, the Trump administration directed DOE to 1) reinstate every award it terminated in October 2025 that it has not already restored, 2) to allow recipients to draw down those funds under the original award terms and 3) to commit in writing that it will not terminate an award because of the political identity of the recipient’s State or the party affiliation of its elected officials."
October 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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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
"...Beyond consideration of the actual text, 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...." ... "No one has explained why a Senator from a targeted State should help the Trump administration fast-track fossil fuel projects while it refuses to restore funding that Trump officials admitted was terminated on an illegal, partisan basis." ... Ultimately, FERC’s authority would be only as fair as the officials who exercise it. And we cannot ignore President Trump’s Executive Order 14215, which asserts President Trump’s “supervision and control” over independent regulatory agencies, a statutory category that includes FERC, or the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which held that President Trump may remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will—a holding that is nearly certain to extend to FERC commissioners who also perform executive functions. Put simply, the Trump administration confirmed it terminated energy awards for States based on whether President Trump won or lost the State in the 2024 presidential election. Why should we be confident that a Trump administration, empowered with national authority to overrule States, would treat this bill differently?" "It would be compelling if, before the motion to proceed vote, the Trump administration directed DOE to 1) reinstate every award it terminated in October 2025 that it has not already restored, 2) to allow recipients to draw down those funds under the original award terms and 3) to commit in writing that it will not terminate an award because of the political identity of the recipient’s State or the party affiliation of its elected officials."
October 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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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
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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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October 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Albuquerque: Pull the Plug on AI!

Join the UNM walkout today and march to Sen. Heinrich's office to stop BAAJA!

@unm.edu @heinrich.senate.gov

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Pull the Plug on AI Walkout & March 12 PM UMN Rally at Scholes 1:30 PM Heinrich's Downtown Office
October 27, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Stop #BAAJA.

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October 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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@fernandez.house.gov (D-NM) opposes #BAAJA: "We all witnessed President Trump’s destruction of the East Wing; this bill will only give him greater legal authority to bulldoze more of America’s treasures."

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Our federal permitting process is broken. We need to deliver cheaper clean energy for American households whose power bills spiked under President Trump. However, I have serious concerns that the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act does significant harm to our Nation’s historic preservation protections. The bill would threaten Tribal sovereignty and undermine the core mission of the National Historic Preservation Act. We all witnessed President Trump’s destruction of the East Wing; this bill will only give him greater legal authority to bulldoze more of America’s treasures. Trump has proven he can’t be trusted with our history and cultural heritage and I worry about the bill’s effects on New Mexico’s strong cultural heritage. Given these concerns, among other issues, I cannot support the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act in its current form. As a former Vice Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, I know we can have permitting reform while still preserving America’s history and culture. I look forward to working with the Senate to make necessary changes to the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act before it receives a vote.
October 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Call your members of Congress TODAY and tell them to join Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, and Adelita Grijalva against #BAAJA
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October 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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The Senate's bipartisan permit reform bill would upend the National Environmental Policy Act and also weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act. My legal analysis: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...
October 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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October 22, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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WE HAVE 20 DAYS TO END #BAAJA. Updated info, streamlined page and more downloadable PDFs. 🏺#S106 #archaeology #historicpreservation Did yu call your elected officals? Call Again!! thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/23/r...
Resource Page for ACHP changes to S106
On the left, an aerial view of 1940s Denver. On the right is a post-urban renewal image from the ealy 1970s. Note the expanse of parking lots where vibrant neighborhoods once stood. October 20, 202…
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October 21, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Tell your members of Congress: “Commit to vote against #BAAJA and pledge to negotiate a clean deal for American communities, workers, and the climate in the 120th Congress.” nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
No Dirty Data Center Deal
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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October 21, 2026 at 9:07 PM