The 99-page bill that would halt the debt limit until January 2025 and impose annual spending caps includes measures to fast-track the approval of new energy projects by putting a shot clock on environmental reviews.Also, the agreement approves all remaining permits required to complete West Virginia’s long-stalled Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline.
Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous urged Congress to “reject this deal and swiftly pass a clean bill.” Other green groups like the League of Conservation Voters expressed displeasure but stopped short of calling for its defeat. The bill text states that the “timely completion of construction and operation of the Mountain Valley Pipeline is required in the national interest” because it will “serve demonstrated natural gas demand” in several regions. It also states that the project will “reduce carbon emissions and facilitate the energy transition.”
A spokesperson for Mr. Kaine said he was “extremely disappointed” that the project was “bypassing the normal judicial and administrative review process every other energy project has to go through.”In addition to the pipeline, the debt ceiling bill includes changes to the bedrock environmental law known as NEPA, or the National Environmental Policy Act.
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