Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration for unexpectedly backing a natural gas pipeline project that has been a key priority for Sen. Joe Manchin for years.
"I am concerned to see this support from the Biden administration for a dirty, unnecessary pipeline that would undermine the U.S.’ ability to meet our climate goals and contradict President Biden’s own climate pledges," said Patrick Grenter, the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign.
"There is nothing natural about the fracked gas that would be transported through the Mountain Valley Pipeline; locking us and our communities into decades of reliance on risky fossil fuels," Grenter added."What we should be focusing on is transitioning into clean sustainable energy that would maintain energy reliability and security."
Equitrans Midstream, a Pennsylvania-based natural gas transmission company, first proposed the West Virginia-to-Virginia pipeline in 2014. TheEnergy Secretary Jennifer Granholm However, a federal appeals court ruled in January 2022 that the Trump administration failed to properly consider the environmental impact of the project when issuing the permits following a legal challenge from a coalition of environmental groups led by Wild Virginia. And, in another setback, aStill, Equitrans announced last year that it expected the pipeline to go into service during the second half of 2023. Federal regulators gave the company until 2026 to complete the project.
"Natural gas—and the infrastructure, such as MVP, that supports its delivery and use—can play an important role as part of the clean energy transition, particularly with broad advances in and deployment of carbon capture technology facilitated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act," she continued.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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