{"id":2002929,"date":"2023-08-16T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-ask-biden-administration-to-deny-73-mile-mountain-valley-pipeline-extension\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:41:44","slug":"house-democrats-ask-biden-administration-to-deny-73-mile-mountain-valley-pipeline-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-ask-biden-administration-to-deny-73-mile-mountain-valley-pipeline-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats urge Biden administration to reject 73-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline extension."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-ask-biden-administration-to-deny-73-mile-mountain-valley-pipeline-extension%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=2002929&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--><h2>A Group\u200d of House Democrats Oppose Extension of Mountain Valley Pipeline<\/h2>\n<p>A \u200cgroup of 28 House Democrats,\u2062 including Representatives Jennifer McClellan, Valerie Foushee, Kathy Manning, and Robert \u2064Scott, have written a letter to Federal Energy Regulatory \u200bCommission Secretary Kimberly Bose, urging her \u200cto deny a request from the developers\u200b of the Mountain Valley Pipeline \u200cto\u2063 extend the project into North Carolina. The lawmakers argue that the construction of the pipeline would pose significant climate\u200b and environmental risks to \u2062the affected states.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs Members \u2064of Congress\u2062 committed to addressing the \u2064climate crisis,\u2063 we \u2026 urge the Commission to deny an extension of the Certificate for MVP Southgate,\u201d\u200b said the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawmakers \u2062referenced a study conducted \u200bby the North Carolina Department of Environment\u200b Quality, which revealed that the proposed MVP \u200dSouthgate extension would impact a substantial amount of regulated riparian buffers, streams, and\u2062 wetlands.\u200d This would result in serious environmental risks, including threats to drinking water quality.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers emphasized the importance of transitioning away from fossil\u2064 fuels\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-full-green-new-deal-tyrant-carbon-emissions-threaten-the-very-existence-of-our-planet-video\/\" title=\"Biden Goes Full Green New Deal Tyrant: Carbon Emissions Threaten \u201cthe Very Existence of our Planet\u201d (VIDEO)\">combat climate change<\/a> and expressed \u2062concerns that the pipeline would lock homes and businesses in the \u200cSoutheast into\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-executive-actions-on-critical-minerals-are-empty-symbolism-critics-say\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Executive Actions On Critical Minerals Are Empty Symbolism, Critics Say\">long-term reliance<\/a> on natural gas. \u2062They\u200c highlighted the fact that the \u200bSouthgate \u2064extension was not included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-ask-biden-administration-to-deny-73-mile-mountain-valley-pipeline-extension\/\" title=\"House Democrats urge Biden administration to reject 73-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline extension.\">debt ceiling deal \u2064negotiated<\/a> by \u2064President Joe Biden \u2062and House Speaker\u200c Kevin \u200bMcCarthy, indicating that it lacks the necessary support.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the Mountain Valley Pipeline has faced numerous delays and opposition \u2062from environmental groups and Democrats over the past five years. The\u200b project\u2064 has\u200c been a \u200dsubject \u200dof intense debate, with critics arguing that it will harm the environment and exacerbate climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn the five years since\u200c the Southgate extension \u2062was\u2062 proposed, the energy landscape has \u2064continued to evolve, further diminishing the need for additional gas for residential purposes,\u201d stated the lawmakers. \u201cClean energy generation continues to grow, and home electrification has \u200dbecome more accessible through \u2063the passage of federal climate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-rep-fundraises-off-upcoming-big-oil-hearing\/\" title=\"Democratic Rep Fundraises Off Upcoming \u2018Big Oil\u2019 Hearing\">clean energy legislation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The pipeline,\u200b once completed, is expected \u2064to have a capacity of \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-becomes-top-lng-exporter-in-first-half-of-2022-eia\/\" title=\"U.S. becomes top LNG exporter in first half of 2022 \u2013 EIA\">2 billion cubic feet<\/a> per day. The developers, Equitrans, aim to finish construction as early as this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Read More:<\/h3>\n<p>For more information on \u2064this topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to visit The Washington\u2063 Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from 28 House Democrats urges Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Secretary Kimberly Bose to reject the Mountain Valley Pipeline developers&#8217; request to expand into North Carolina. They argue that the project&#8217;s construction would endanger affected states with significant climate and environmental hazards. As Members of Congress, we strongly oppose this extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002929","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=2002929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}