Senator Morgan urges Senate to back resolution to remove red tape slowing wind and solar projects

Senator Morgan urged the Senate on the floor to support a resolution to roll back a Trump-era regulation that, he said, has added ‘‘a whole lot of additional bureaucratic red tape’’ to wind and solar projects.

Speaking before he left the floor, Senator Morgan said ‘‘American families and businesses from coast to coast have been getting battered by rising energy costs’’ and cited growing power demand from data centers and hotter summers as drivers of higher bills. He blamed recent federal policy decisions for undercutting clean-energy industries, saying Republicans had "surrendered to China and the Europeans" and that the result has been higher costs for consumers.

Morgan described the measure as a limited, practical step rather than a rewrite of existing law. He said he and colleagues—including Leader Schumer and Senator Cortez Mastow—are proposing a resolution that would overturn a regulation from the Trump administration and remove procedural barriers that he says have stalled projects. "Let's get rid of some system clogging red tape," he said.

He also invoked the Inflation Reduction Act, saying he had written a set of tax credits in that law that "kicked off a manufacturing boom" and arguing that Republican changes and administrative rules have choked off that momentum. Morgan said the proposal is aimed at speeding project starts, increasing energy supply on the grid and helping to blunt rising costs for consumers.

No vote or formal tally was recorded in this speech. Senator Morgan concluded by thanking Leader Schumer and Senator Cortez Mastow for their work on the proposal and yielding the floor.

The resolution was introduced on the Senate floor; the speech did not record committee referrals, a vote, or further procedural steps.