Clock Ticking to Pass Manchin’s Deal with Devil to Complete MVP

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, traded away the future of the country by supporting the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (the remnants of the Green New Deal) in return for finishing the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline along with a few other concessions for the oil and gas industry (see Joe Manchin Cuts MVP “Deal” in Return for Selling Out Country). Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised a vote on a "permitting reform" bill for Manchin in return for his IRA sellout. The permitting reform measure is supposed to get voted on by the end of September. Will it?

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