The Inflation Reduction Act includes renewable energy investments and drug price reforms, it also clears the way for the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would transport shale gas from West Virginia to Virginia.
No timeline has been formally established for a vote on the side deal, which would also restrict legal challenges to energy projects. But Manchin, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry and the top recipient of oil and gas donations in Congress, suggested in a
In a statement late Monday, Earthjustice president Abigail Dillen warned that hacking away at regulatory processes for energy infrastructure “prioritizes polluting industries and fossil fuel interests over people who are dealing with prolonged exposure to toxic pollution.”grappling “The world is on fire and Congress is attacking it with a squirt gun while giving Senator Manchin and fossil fuel executives more matches by fast-tracking oil and gas drilling and hydrogen boondoggles,” Earthworks policy director Lauren Pagel said Monday. “Drilling for oil and gas is no solution to the climate crisis.”
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