Manchin votes with GOP to cancel Biden environmental permitting rule
Jeremy Beaman - 1h ago
The Senate passed a resolution Thursday canceling a Biden administration rule governing environmental reviews for infrastructure projects that Republicans have argued made permitting more onerous, holding up construction.
All 49 Republicans present, and the lone Democratic vote of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), were enough to pass the Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval, which would strike down a rule governing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Review Act. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), who introduced the resolution, and other Republican supporters argued the NEPA rule makes the review and permitting of infrastructure projects more difficult.
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The rule in question was finalized by the White House's Council on Environmental Quality in April and rolled back Trump-era reforms to the NEPA implementation process, including the condition that agencies overseeing environmental reviews limit their scope to “reasonably foreseeable” impacts of a given action.
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