{"id":980774,"date":"2023-02-03T01:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/manchin-dirty-deal-house-republicans"},"modified":"2023-02-03T01:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:06:03","slug":"climate-movement-ready-to-kill-dirty-deal-again-as-manchin-signals-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/03\/climate-movement-ready-to-kill-dirty-deal-again-as-manchin-signals-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Movement ‘Ready to Kill’ Dirty Deal Again as Manchin Signals Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe U.S. climate movement this week vowed to keep fighting against Sen. Joe Manchin’s
\n\tthrice-defeated<\/a> “dirty deal” after the West Virginia Democrat indicated he intends to work with House Republicans to force through fossil fuel-friendly permitting reforms.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFrontline climate campaigners and progressives in both chambers of Congress worked tirelessly last year to quash Manchin’s proposals\u2014while also advocating for updates to permitting policy that would speed up the renewable energy transition.
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\n\tThe GOP took narrow control of the House earlier this year, and the chamber’s Natural Resources Committee is now led by Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.). Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, met with him on Wednesday to discuss permitting legislation.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“Permitting reform as proposed in recent legislation would undermine effective tools used to protect air, water, and climate from the most damaging new infrastructure under consideration.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“They’re going to work on something,” Manchin
\n\tsaid<\/a> of the House, according to E&E News<\/em>. “I think it’s a high priority, which both sides know that we need it. Everyone has come to agreement that you got to have permitting. Let’s take the politics out of it, and do what’s doable.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the meeting, Westerman said he saw “common ground between Sen. Manchin and myself.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe same day, the Republican Study Committee, the largest House GOP caucus,
\n\tconvened<\/a> to discuss priorities for debt ceiling negotiations. According to<\/a> a leaked portion of a slideshow, one policy endorsed by the committee for those talks is “enact a package of inflation-busting reforms to increase domestic energy capacity and reduce associated regulatory and permitting barriers.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the Green New Deal Network\u2014a U.S.
\n\tcampaign<\/a> that includes 15 national organizations\u2013pledged Wednesday that “we’ll be here, ready to kill Manchin’s dirty deal all over again.”\n<\/p>\n

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\\u201cManchin is making another push to accelerate fossil fuel permitting. But what we urgently need is to make it easier to permit clean energy projects. \\n\\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/pewl5Mk6eh\\u201d<\/div>\n

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