Republicans called for ecologists to pay attention to a decrease in harm from mining – Bits Media

Republican lawmakers sent to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) A request to conduct a “comprehensive analysis of the possible impact of extraction of digital assets on the environment”.

Under the petition, addressed to the head of the agency Michael Rigan (Michael Regan) More than a dozen congressmen from the bank committee of the Senate and the Financial Service of the House of Representatives were signed.

The authors of the letter became a senator from the state of Vaiming Cynthia Lummis (Cynthia Lummis) and member of the lower house from California Patrick McGenry (Patrick McHenry).

The petition is noted, that "a significant part of the energy consumption of digital assets miners is based on renewable energy sources". Many cryptocurrency mining operations “use other energy sources, such as natural gas, which otherwise may remain unclaimed ".

According to the authors of the letter, The federal authorities do not have the right to choose types of technologies, which should be preferred. The US government should not do anything, What could undermine American leadership in the cryptocurrency mining sector.

The petition is opposed to the previously published petition of congressmen-democrats, speaking against mining on pow. Opponents of mining are headed by a representative of California Jared Huffman (Jared Huffman) From the Committee on Natural Resources. Democrats with their petition warned the head of EPA about climatic risks and called for a more thorough analysis of the harm of mining pow.

Democrats claim, that the government must note the technology of mining in favor of evidence of ownership (PoS) as a potentially “consuming less energy for 99.99%” to check transactions.

At the beginning of the month, American President Joe Biden announced a state of emergency in the country due to a lack of energy generating capacities, which can negatively affect the activities of local miners.