{"id":1638392,"date":"2022-09-10T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638392"},"modified":"2022-09-10T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:06:33","slug":"72-house-democrats-urge-pelosi-to-keep-energy-permitting-changes-out-of-government-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/72-house-democrats-urge-pelosi-to-keep-energy-permitting-changes-out-of-government-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"72 House Democrats Urge Pelosi to Keep Energy Permitting Changes Out of Government Funding"},"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\">28<\/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%2F72-house-democrats-urge-pelosi-to-keep-energy-permitting-changes-out-of-government-funding%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=1638392&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>Dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives are urging Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) not to include changes to the U.S. energy permitting process in the government funding measure, despite promises to reform the system being key to convincing Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-manchin\">Joe Manchin<\/a> (D-W.Va.) to vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-signs-inflation-reduction-act-into-law_4668664.html\">the recently-signed Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to ensure that these provisions are kept out of a continuing resolution or any other must-pass legislation this year,\u201d\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Ra\u00fal Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the\u00a0Natural Resources Committee, and 71 other Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22279005-house-democrats-to-pelosi\">wrote to Pelosi on Sept. 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They referenced a leaked draft of the permitting measure that would streamline the permitting process for oil and other energy projects and may be linked to the continuing resolution, which contains funding for the government to avoid a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed legislation would restrict public access to the courts to seek remedies against illegal project development; place arbitrary limits on the amount of time the public is given to comment on polluting projects; and curtail public input, environmental review, and government accountability,\u201d the Democrats said.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get Manchin\u2019s support for the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrat leaders\u2014President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)\u2014promised reforms to the permitting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden, Leader Schumer, and Speaker Pelosi have committed to advancing a suite of commonsense permitting reforms this fall that will ensure all energy infrastructure, from transmission to pipelines and export facilities, can be efficiently and responsibly built to deliver energy safely around the country and to our allies,\u201d Manchin said in a statement announcing he would vote for the act.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have a majority in the 50\u201350 Senate by virtue of their control of the White House. That means any Democrat defection imperils a bill, even if it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) not to include changes to the U.S. energy permitting process in the government funding measure, despite promises to reform the system being key to convincing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to vote for the recently-signed Inflation Reduction Act. \u201cWe urge you to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1638392","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\/1638392","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638392\/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=1638392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}