US House passes bill to fast-track natural gas pipeline permitting

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-house-passes-bill-fast-183722645.html

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  1. **From Reuters:**

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted 213-184 to pass a bill that aims to speed ​up federal permitting of interstate natural gas pipelines by designating ‌the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as the lead agency in the process.

    The Improving Interagency ‌Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act gives the agency the authority to weigh water quality assessments in its environmental review process instead of having to wait for a separate certification under the Clean Water Act from states, which ⁠has prolonged the permitting process.

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  2. We’ll see how many permits are requested. Not sure how economically viable these will be.

    “Driil baby, drill” 🙄

  4. And somehow the Democrats couldn’t get faster permitting for solar, wind and grid upgrades through – oh, yeah, they didn’t really try hard enough.

    Remember this when Democrats take Congress. There is a lot that can be done and should be done.

  5. It is probably a good idea, the devil is in the details.

    The anti-renewables lobby has encouraged a philosophy against eminent domain, which people are paid a fair market price for. We shall see how the landowners digest “me first” vs “pipeline planning first’ and the states digest “state first” vs the “federal government first.”

    We need the same reforms for electric transmission lines.

  6. Nevermind that solar just keeps getting better and better. Let’s just stay in the stone ages so Republicans can grift and take bribes from the fossil fuel industry.

  8. Injecting RNG needs to get cheaper which will lower prices.

  9. We are set to make a ton of RNG from waste via state-of-the-art pyrolysis. Who is for that?

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