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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jun 6, 2023, 1:55:47 PM6/6/23
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(Bloomberg) -- Democratic Senator Joe Manchin slipped into the debt-limit
deal a measure meant to accelerate a multi-billion-dollar natural gas
pipeline that’s been repeatedly stalled on environmental concerns,
according to people familiar with the matter.
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Manchin Gets Mountain Valley Pipeline Deal Into Debt Bill
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Manchin has tried for more than a year to secure a side deal for
construction of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, which cuts through
the Democratic lawmaker’s home state of West Virginia. The project stalled
after a federal court rejected a permit to cross a national forest.
President Joe Biden’s negotiators decided that because the project is
nearly done anyway — and has cleared almost all its legal hurdles — it
would be unwise to reject Manchin’s proposal, one of the people said.
Democrats close to the talks argue that the project represents less than
1% of the total emission reductions expected from last year’s Inflation
Reduction Act, Biden’s signature tax-and-climate law.
The language in the debt bill would force agencies to take all necessary
actions to permit the construction of the pipeline and would give the DC
Circuit jurisdiction over future litigation involving the project.
For years, its approvals have been challenged in the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals.
The debt deal preserves environmental law that Republicans wanted to
overhaul with sweeping changes to federal permitting. As part of the
talks, GOP negotiators pushed for energy-permitting reform to hasten
project approvals.
Mountain Valley Pipeline’s developers, a group led by Pittsburgh-based
Equitrans Midstream Partners LP, have said the pipeline is 94% completed,
but that it still needs permits to build across streams and protected
habitats.
It is years behind schedule. Its completion would provide drillers in the
gas-rich Appalachian Basin with much-needed takeaway capacity.
Environmental advocates expressed outrage that the pipeline provision was
included. It will “dramatically roll back bedrock environmental laws that
give voice to frontline communities and sabotage agencies whose job is to
protect the environment and working families,” said Jean Su, energy
justice program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Congress
should reject these poison pills and pass a clean debt-ceiling bill.”
Specifically, the legislation would require the US Army Corps of Engineers
to issue a permit for the project within 21 days of enactment. It also
limits court review of agency permits and approvals for the pipeline, and
designates the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit with exclusive jurisdiction over challenges to that section of
law, according to the bill’s text.
“Last summer, I introduced legislation to complete the Mountain Valley
Pipeline. I am pleased Speaker McCarthy and his leadership team see the
tremendous value in completing the MVP to increase domestic energy
production and drive down costs across America and especially in West
Virginia,” Manchin said in a statement.
Negotiators for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were receptive to adding the
project to the debt bill, and Democratic negotiators agreed to it fairly
early in the talks, one of the people said. Biden has previously said
publicly that he supports Manchin’s permitting-reform proposal, including
in a statement in December 2022.
When McCarthy briefed House Republicans on the deal, he didn’t tell them
about the special accommodation for Manchin.
McCarthy told them the permitting issues were still being hashed out, but
he didn’t mention the West Virginia senator.
Manchin’s Senate term expires in January 2025. He hasn’t said whether he
will seek reelection. West Virginia Republican Governor Jim Justice is
running for the seat.
--With assistance from Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter.
(Updates with call detail in 14th paragraph.)
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Jinxit
29 May, 2023
This is why nothing gets done. The bill has nothing to do with a pipeline,
immigration, welfare or other stuff, but none of our elected officials
will support it unless it favors them. You have Americans wondering if
they will get paid and/or be able to pay their bills on time let alone be
able to pay for groceries. Makes no sense to add their agendas to any bill
just so it can be held up or voted out because it doesn't benefit them
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233930195.html
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233930195.html
(Bloomberg) -- Democratic Senator Joe Manchin slipped into the debt-limit
deal a measure meant to accelerate a multi-billion-dollar natural gas
pipeline that’s been repeatedly stalled on environmental concerns,
according to people familiar with the matter.
Most Read from Bloomberg
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Billion Rally
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Manchin Gets Mountain Valley Pipeline Deal Into Debt Bill
Debt-Limit Deal Brings Relief Tinged by Caution: Markets Wrap
Manchin has tried for more than a year to secure a side deal for
construction of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, which cuts through
the Democratic lawmaker’s home state of West Virginia. The project stalled
after a federal court rejected a permit to cross a national forest.
President Joe Biden’s negotiators decided that because the project is
nearly done anyway — and has cleared almost all its legal hurdles — it
would be unwise to reject Manchin’s proposal, one of the people said.
Democrats close to the talks argue that the project represents less than
1% of the total emission reductions expected from last year’s Inflation
Reduction Act, Biden’s signature tax-and-climate law.
The language in the debt bill would force agencies to take all necessary
actions to permit the construction of the pipeline and would give the DC
Circuit jurisdiction over future litigation involving the project.
For years, its approvals have been challenged in the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals.
The debt deal preserves environmental law that Republicans wanted to
overhaul with sweeping changes to federal permitting. As part of the
talks, GOP negotiators pushed for energy-permitting reform to hasten
project approvals.
Mountain Valley Pipeline’s developers, a group led by Pittsburgh-based
Equitrans Midstream Partners LP, have said the pipeline is 94% completed,
but that it still needs permits to build across streams and protected
habitats.
It is years behind schedule. Its completion would provide drillers in the
gas-rich Appalachian Basin with much-needed takeaway capacity.
Environmental advocates expressed outrage that the pipeline provision was
included. It will “dramatically roll back bedrock environmental laws that
give voice to frontline communities and sabotage agencies whose job is to
protect the environment and working families,” said Jean Su, energy
justice program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Congress
should reject these poison pills and pass a clean debt-ceiling bill.”
Specifically, the legislation would require the US Army Corps of Engineers
to issue a permit for the project within 21 days of enactment. It also
limits court review of agency permits and approvals for the pipeline, and
designates the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit with exclusive jurisdiction over challenges to that section of
law, according to the bill’s text.
“Last summer, I introduced legislation to complete the Mountain Valley
Pipeline. I am pleased Speaker McCarthy and his leadership team see the
tremendous value in completing the MVP to increase domestic energy
production and drive down costs across America and especially in West
Virginia,” Manchin said in a statement.
Negotiators for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were receptive to adding the
project to the debt bill, and Democratic negotiators agreed to it fairly
early in the talks, one of the people said. Biden has previously said
publicly that he supports Manchin’s permitting-reform proposal, including
in a statement in December 2022.
When McCarthy briefed House Republicans on the deal, he didn’t tell them
about the special accommodation for Manchin.
McCarthy told them the permitting issues were still being hashed out, but
he didn’t mention the West Virginia senator.
Manchin’s Senate term expires in January 2025. He hasn’t said whether he
will seek reelection. West Virginia Republican Governor Jim Justice is
running for the seat.
--With assistance from Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter.
(Updates with call detail in 14th paragraph.)
Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek
Jinxit
29 May, 2023
This is why nothing gets done. The bill has nothing to do with a pipeline,
immigration, welfare or other stuff, but none of our elected officials
will support it unless it favors them. You have Americans wondering if
they will get paid and/or be able to pay their bills on time let alone be
able to pay for groceries. Makes no sense to add their agendas to any bill
just so it can be held up or voted out because it doesn't benefit them
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/manchin-gets-mountain-valley-pipeline-
233930195.html
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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