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Does Sen. Joe Manchin Just Hate the Planet?
He’s once again joining Republicans for “permitting reform”.
It feels as though every time I’m about to discuss Senator Joe Manchin, I find myself struggling to think of a Democratic politician that I dislike more than him, and for fairly obvious reasons. I suppose if we’re going to give him any credit at all, there’s the fact that we at least knew exactly what we were getting when it comes to the West Virginia coal baron turned U.S. Senator.
Well, he’s at it again.
Zack Budryk with The Hill writes:
“Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday joined Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) to announce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s new rules on energy permitting, following a pledge Manchin made last week.
The new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rule, announced last week, undoes 2020 rules implemented under the Trump administration that the Biden administration said added unnecessary hurdles to the public comment process. It also creates new pathways for categorical exclusions, the most common and speediest form of review under NEPA.
Manchin has been a vocal proponent of an overhaul to the permitting…
