Environmental groups slammed a permitting reform deal announced by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., saying it would 'accelerate the wildlife extinction crisis.'
penned a letter Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying the MVP pipeline would lock the U.S. into a "climate catastrophe" and "accelerate the wildlife extinction crisis in this country."
"The Mountain Valley Pipeline is an ecological and climate disaster that threatens one of the largest remaining wild landscapes in the eastern United States," the letter, which was led by the Center for Biological Diversity and joined by Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace USA and Sierra Club among others, stated.
Equitrans Midstream, a Pennsylvania-based natural gas transmission company, first proposed the pipeline in 2014. The Trump administration issued the original permits for the project in 2017 and reissued the permit in early 2021.However, a federal appeals court ruled in January that the Trump administration failed to properly consider the environmental impact of the project when issuing the permits following a legal challenge from a coalition of environmental groups led by Wild Virginia.
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