The White House has long used a stalled fossil fuel pipeline as a bargaining chip with Republicans in the administration's efforts to attract GOP support for supercharging renewables by accelerating the nation's energy permitting laws.
The White House has long used a stalled fossil fuel pipeline as a bargaining chip with Republicans in the administration’s efforts to attractMountain Valley Pipeline
The inclusion of the more than 300-mile-long venture that winds through rural Virginia and West Virginia has Democrats fuming and Republicans touting what they say is a strategic advantage that will tip future energy talks about streamlining projects in their favor. In addition to the pipeline, Republicans secured time limits for environmental reviews that will speed up proposed energy projects, especially fossil fuels, offering theFast-tracking the nation’s permitting rules is a crucial part of Mr. Biden’s green agenda. However, the electricity transmission component for renewables remains a major sticking point between the two parties.
“It makes it much harder to get somebody like Capito [on future permitting], and I can understand why progressives are pissed about it,” a Democratic aide told The Washington Times.colleagues don’t see it that way.
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