{"id":1128381,"date":"2021-12-17T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128381"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:43:49","slug":"democrats-strike-offshore-drilling-ban-after-manchin-opposition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-strike-offshore-drilling-ban-after-manchin-opposition-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Strike Offshore Drilling Ban After Manchin Opposition: REPORT"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdemocrats-strike-offshore-drilling-ban-after-manchin-opposition-report%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=1128381&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 lawmakers reportedly eliminated a proposed measure to ban offshore oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coastline from their sweeping spending package after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced his opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The provision was absent from an early draft of the roughly $2.2 trillion Build Back Better Act that was circulated on Capitol Hill by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee which Manchin chairs, congressional aides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/climate\/manchin-offshore-drilling-climate.html\">told<\/a> The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2021\/12\/16\/manchin-offshore-drilling-arctic\/\">and<\/a> The Washington Post. The restriction would have applied to all drilling rigs located in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean as well as the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tragic milestone in the seemingly inevitable dismantling of the Build Back Better Act,\u201d Center for Biological Diversity government affairs director Brett Hartl told the NYT. \u201cWhy Senator Manchin wants to poison our coasts while he lives the good life in his landlocked state only shows just how out of touch he is with the overwhelming public support for ending offshore drilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, a key swing vote in the 50-50 Senate, also expressed concerns with proposed restrictions on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the Post reported. However, that provision remains in the legislation\u2019s draft. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/nuclear-energy-joe-manchin-john-barrasso\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Cannot Power The World With Solar Panels And Wind Turbines Alone\u2019: Bipartisan Lawmakers Advocate For Increased Nuclear Energy)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7339257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7339257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joe Manchin walks out of a meeting with fellow Democratic senators on Wednesday. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The White House declined to comment on \u201cthe minutia of the negotiations\u201d in a statement to the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unknown we\u2019re facing today is much greater than the need that people believe in this aspirational bill that we\u2019re looking at,\u201d Manchin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/manchin-holds-back-support-for-social-spending-bill-11638919554\">said<\/a> in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Dec. 7. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotta make sure we get this right. We just can\u2019t continue to flood the market, as we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done so many good things in the last 10 months, and no one is taking a breath,\u201d the West Virginia senator added.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, whose state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/state\/?sid=WV#:~:text=West%20Virginia%20also%20had%2012,West%20Virginia&#039;s%20electricity%20net%20generation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues to rely<\/a> on the coal industry for jobs and revenue, has played a major part in striking key climate provisions from the Build Back Better Act during negotiations. He was largely <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/green-new-deal-handouts-subsidies-democrats-joe-biden-budget-energy-climate-change\/\">responsible for<\/a> the removal of the $150 billion Clean Electricity Performance Program and his position has cast doubt on other measures like a methane fee for major emitters.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic senator also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/senate-democrats-push-bidens-spending-bill-2022-instead-pass-voting-bill\/\">pushed back<\/a> on the inclusion of a child tax credit extension in the bill in negotiations with President Joe Biden, creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/senate-democrats-push-bidens-spending-bill-2022-instead-pass-voting-bill\/\">major stalemate<\/a>.<\/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 lawmakers reportedly eliminated a proposed measure to ban offshore oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coastline from their sweeping spending package after Democratic Sen. 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