{"id":1641313,"date":"2022-09-14T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641313"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:20:19","slug":"manchins-permitting-reform-side-deal-collapsing-as-republicans-blast-bill-and-propose-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchins-permitting-reform-side-deal-collapsing-as-republicans-blast-bill-and-propose-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin\u2019s Permitting Reform Side Deal Collapsing As Republicans Blast Bill And Propose Their Own"},"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%2Fmanchins-permitting-reform-side-deal-collapsing-as-republicans-blast-bill-and-propose-their-own%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=1641313&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>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-manchin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Manchin\u2019s<\/a> (D-WV) side deal with Democrats on permitting reform is continuing to break down, as Republicans are now signaling their opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for his vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/inflation-reduction-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>, Manchin struck a deal with Democratic leadership to include a bill reforming the energy permitting system in a stopgap government funding bill. House Democrats already signaled their opposition to the provision over concerns about the climate impacts of new energy projects. But Senate Republicans made opposition to Manchin\u2019s proposal bipartisan, and are now advancing a bill of their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re now looking for Republicans to support and give you more cover than you have right now, you\u2019re not going to find it with us,\u201d Sen.\u00a0John Barrasso\u00a0(R-WY) told reporters this week, via <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/3642917-gop-expresses-hostility-to-manchin-permitting-reform-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Republicans in both chambers of Congress are skeptical of Manchin\u2019s side deal, and wary that he will have to make concessions to appease progressives. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen permitting reforms that happened around the highway bill, infrastructure bill, and the administration just kind of swaps them off and ignores them,\u201d Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said at a press conference Tuesday, via The Hill. \u201cSo the question is, are their teeth in these reforms?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far what Joe\u2019s put out is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchin.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/energy_permitting_provisions.pdf?cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-page template<\/a> \u2014 I haven\u2019t seen anything else \u2014 and like I said, it\u2019s not very ambitious in my view. It\u2019s not enough for me to get to \u2018yes,\u2019 because frankly I don\u2019t know why I would want to facilitate mediocrity,\u201d Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans historically have strongly supported permitting reform, but the permitting reform text in the CR hasn\u2019t been released and it may favor Green New Deal projects to appease [Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ra\u00fal M.] Grijalva and the 70+ Democrats who\u2019ve pledged to vote against it,\u201d House Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/banks.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/cr_memo_real_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a> to his colleagues discussing expectations for the rest of Congress\u2019 term, adding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) needs the votes of those 70 Democrats to pass any government funding bill.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) also opposed the proposal being tacked onto a budget resolution. \u201cI think putting it on a CR is problematic,\u201d Collins told The Hill. \u201cIt\u2019s a major policy issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Republicans in the Senate have proposed their own legislation to reform the permit system. Barrasso and fellow Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrasso.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/news-releases?ID=4A61356D-03E5-4F04-81A3-29946C98C51A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simplify Timelines and Assure Regulatory Transparency (START) Act<\/a> Tuesday. The bill codifies much of the Trump administration\u2019s streamlined environmental regulations, prohibits the Biden administration\u2019s much higher estimates for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-likely-to-restart-oil-and-gas-leases-after-federal-court-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social cost of carbon<\/a>\u201d in new energy projects, and gives states much more power to grant energy permits and develop new energy projects within their boundaries, including on federal land. The bill also includes expedited approval for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, one of the priorities in Manchin\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s \u201cside deal\u201d showed its first signs of falling apart last week, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/manchins-inflation-reduction-act-side-deal-beginning-to-fall-apart-dozens-of-democrats-signal-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 70 House Democrats<\/a> signed a letter voicing their opposition to permitting reform. The Democrats said in the letter that the proposed reforms were \u201canti-environmental and anti-environmental justice,\u201d and that they would negatively impact so-called \u201cfrontline\u201d communities of color. The same day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) voiced his opposition to the deal in a floor speech. \u201cI am urging all of my colleagues to \u2026 reject this dirty side deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s (D-WV) side deal with Democrats on permitting reform is continuing to break down, as Republicans are now signaling their opposition. In exchange for his vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, Manchin struck a deal with Democratic leadership to include a bill reforming the energy permitting system in a stopgap government funding bill. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919641,"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-1641313","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\/1641313","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}