Included in the text of the debt limit deal is a provision – taking up 25 of the bill's 99 pages – that would approve the remaining permits for the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would transport natural gas across the Virginias.
Congress may be on its way to avoiding debt default for the nation, but it could come at some environmental cost.
But the pipeline, which is nearly complete, has undergone months of battling for its final permits and has a history of environmental concerns. And the fight to expedite its approval may not be over: the debt ceiling bill, and several members are already unhappy with the inclusion of the pipeline. On Tuesday, six House Democrats filed an amendment to remove it from the bill.
"[It's] bypassing the normal judicial and administrative review process every other energy project has to go through," the spokesperson told CBS News."This provision is completely unrelated to the debt ceiling matter."
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