Indiana's Todd Young Signs onto Bill Aiming to Protect...
Indiana’s Todd Young Signs onto Bill Aiming to Protect American Pipelines
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WASHINGTON — If you try to disrupt American energy, you should pay a severe price, so says Indiana’s senior senator.
A proposal put forth by Senate Commerce Committee Republicans demands greater criminal charges for anyone who tries to disrupt American pipelines, and Indiana’s Todd Young has signed on to that plan.
The Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act would expand criminal charges to anyone who vandalizes a pipeline, whereas current law only applies to someone who destroys a pipeline.
Young says the bill is necessary to deter what he calls domestic eco-terrorists.
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“About ninety percent of America’s transportation sector is reliant on oil, and pipeline disruptions pose a major threat to America’s energy security,” said Senator Young in a Tuesday press release, “our legislation takes much-needed steps to better protect our critical infrastructure and deter attacks on America’s pipelines.”
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