Not Surprisingly, Here's The Next Speaker Of The House's (McCarthy's) Wretched Environmental Record

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In 2011, McCarthy advanced a bill to open millions of acres of roadless and wilderness study areas to industrial use. "Millions of acres of land across the United States are being held under lock and key unnecessarily," McCarthy said in a press release highlighting the "Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011." "My bill acts on recommendations made by the government agencies managing these lands so they are opened up for increased public use. "This is just common sense."

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McCarthy has backed the Trump administration's push to review national monuments created under former President Obama. "Government must still retain the authority to preserve our nation's most treasured sites, but that authority was clearly abused by the Obama Administration when it restricted over 550 million acres in 34 national monuments under the Antiquities Act," McCarthy said in an April 2017 statement. In 2014, shortly after he was named majority leader, McCarthy fought the designation of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in his home state of California.

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In 2016, McCarthy cast several votes to expand drilling in U.S. waters and in Alaska's coastal plain. According to LCV data, the majority leader joined 242 of his House colleagues in rejecting a measure that would have blocked funding for research to support activity in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, where drilling is under a congressional moratorium until 2022.

McCarthy supported a proposal by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) to stop the removal of three Arctic Ocean lease sales scheduled under the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's 2017-22 offshore program. Trump's Interior Department has proposed a new five-year offshore leasing strategy that would offer most of the U.S. outer continental shelf to drillers.

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