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Joe Manchin Floats New “Save MVP” Permitting Bill, Biden Supports
For the third time, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (liberal Democrat from West Virginia) has introduced a permitting reform bill to save the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from the clutches of colluding leftists who sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Manchin is rebranding this bill (essentially the same one he introduced last year that bombed out) as the “Building American Energy Security Act of 2023” (full copy below). He introduced the bill in the U.S. Senate yesterday.
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During yesterday’s quarterly phone call with analysts to discuss the 1Q23 performance of Equitrans Midstream, a big topic of conversation was the 94% completed (but stalled) Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Equitrans (builder of MVP) CEO Thomas Karam said, “The path to an MVP completion during 2023 is narrower but based on the diligent and comprehensive work being done by the staff at various state and federal agencies and the expected overall permitting timeline, we believe the possibility of commencing forward construction this summer still exists.” He also said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (4th Circuit) and their prospective rejection of new permits for the project is not “that dire of a position.” We 100% disagree.
In late 2015, MPLX (i.e. Marathon Petroleum) bought out and merged in the Utica Shale’s premier midstream company, MarkWest Energy, for $15 billion (see 
Even though Dominion Energy sold its interstate pipeline network in 2020 (see 
Rational thought was purged from the radicalized left long ago. Still, it’s worth mentioning from time to time just how illogical and irrational the “environmental” left has become in its thinking and pronouncements. For example, extremely combustible hydrogen emits NO carbon dioxide when burned. It simply turns into water. So you might think replacing natural gas with hydrogen would be a dream come true for anti-fossil fuel zealots. But you would be wrong. Antis HATE hydrogen energy and are now actively working to defeat it even as they work to defeat natural gas. Why?
The left has infected and corrupted hard science, like math, chemistry, biology, and geology. Even the scientific method is no longer used by the very organization that is supposed to promote real (hard) science: the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). Members of the 
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