debt deal helps Machin - would approve West Virginia pipeline, curtail environmental law

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Debt limit deal would approve West Virginia pipeline, curtail environmental law


Included in the 99-page deal to lift the debt ceiling is the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a pipeline that would carry fuel from West Virginia to Virginia and has become a pet project of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).

Manchin, who would face reelection next year in ruby-red West Virginia if he decides to run, touted the inclusion of the pipeline as something he helped to secure.

“I am proud to have fought for this critical project and to have secured the bipartisan support necessary to get it across the finish line,” he said in a written statement.

The deal also shortens the time the federal government can take to assess a proposed project’s impact on the environment, limiting the most rigorous reviews to two years and less rigorous reviews to one year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/debt-limit-deal-would-approve-west-virginia-pipeline-curtail-environmental-law/ar-AA1bOTvj

[no_hypocrisy]

1. At least Manchin won't vote against it.

[phylny]

3. People in Virginia are dead set opposed to it.

[jimfields33]

5. Virginia and West Virginia have a very different population

It doesn’t surprise me that Virginia would oppose. But West Virginia population may approve.

[Think. Again.]

4. Maybe...

Maybe our focus should be set on curtailing demand of CO2 emmitting fuels as well as supply...