{"id":1048608,"date":"2021-11-23T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048608"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:43:37","slug":"joe-manchin-again-urges-biden-to-reinstate-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchin-again-urges-biden-to-reinstate-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin Again Urges Biden To Reinstate Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-manchin-again-urges-biden-to-reinstate-keystone-xl-pipeline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin redoubled his efforts to convince President Joe Biden to reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that it would bolster U.S. energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the comments following Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-critics-gas-prices\/\">decision<\/a> to tap into the U.S. emergency oil stockpile. The federal government will release approximately 50 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/11\/23\/president-biden-announces-release-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-as-part-of-ongoing-efforts-to-lower-prices-and-address-lack-of-supply-around-the-world\/\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to call on President Biden to responsibly increase energy production here at home and to reverse course to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, one of our closest allies,\u201d Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/2021\/11\/manchin-statement-on-biden-s-decision-to-release-oil-from-strategic-petroleum-reserve\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, this is about American energy independence and the fact that hard working Americans should not depend on foreign actors, like OPEC+, for our energy security and instead focus on the real challenges facing our country\u2019s future,\u201d he continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-critics-gas-prices\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Will Not Fix The Problem\u2019: Biden Releasing Oil Reserves Due To Politics, Critics Say)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7326166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7326166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joe Manchin stands next to Sen. Mitt Romney as they arrive before President Joe Biden takes part in a signing ceremony for the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Nov. 15. (Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shortly after Biden revoked Keystone XL\u2019s federal permit, Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/2021\/2\/manchin-urges-president-biden-to-reconsider-keystone-xl-decision-support-responsible-energy-infrastructure-development\">urged<\/a> the president to reconsider. Pipelines are the nation\u2019s \u201csafest mode to transport our oil,\u201d the West Virginia Democrat stated at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But the president has continued to pursue an aggressive, anti-fossil fuel agenda that includes nixing pipelines importing crude oil, ditching oil drilling projects and banning new oil and gas leases on federal lands. Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/22\/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies\/\">vowed<\/a> to set the U.S. on course to having a carbon-free electric grid by 2035 and net zero emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the decade that will determine the answer. This decade,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/11\/01\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-cop26-leaders-statement\/\">said<\/a> during an international climate summit on Nov. 1. \u201cThe science is clear: We only have a brief window left before us to raise our ambitions and to raise \u2014 to meet the task that\u2019s rapidly narrowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, however, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/19\/joe-manchin-climate-change-carbon-tax-democrats-budget\/\">stood in the way<\/a> of Biden\u2019s climate agenda, causing Democrats to strike the $150 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/green-new-deal-handouts-subsidies-democrats-joe-biden-budget-energy-climate-change\/\">Clean Electricity Performance Program<\/a> from the Build Back Better Act. It remains unclear whether he will vote in favor of the current form of the spending package which includes a tax on methane emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin redoubled his efforts to convince President Joe Biden to reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that it would bolster U.S. energy independence.Manchin, the chairman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}