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      Climate advocates demonstrate against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

      'We Will Never Stop Fighting': Pipeline Opponents Galvanized as Congress Clears Way for Dirty Project

      "By voting for a dirty deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline and guts bedrock environmental laws, Congress betrayed people and the planet," said one campaigner.

      Jake Johnson
      Jun 02, 2023

      After thwarting a last-minute bid to strip out language mandating approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the U.S. Senate late Thursday passed legislation that would raise the debt limit and avert a default.

      But congressional Republicans ensured that preventing an economic catastrophe would come at a significant cost for vulnerable people and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis—and the Biden White House ultimately acceded to some of the GOP hostage-takers' demands, declining to use its executive authority to continue paying the nation's bills.

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      U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) walk to speak to reporters after meeting with President Joe Biden and GOP congressional leaders at the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2023.​

      175 Groups Urge Dems to Reject Debt Ceiling Deal's Giveaways to Fossil Fuel Industry

      "Congress must pass a clean debt ceiling bill. This is the only moral and just path forward for lawmakers."

      Jessica Corbett
      May 30, 2023

      With a vote to raise the U.S. debt limit expected as early as Wednesday, 175 environmental groups on Tuesday demanded Democrats in Congress reject President Joe Biden's deal with Republican lawmakers over "polluter giveaways" and other policies "that have no place in legislation addressing the country’s financial debt obligation."

      "We urge Congress to pass a clean debt ceiling bill free of unnecessary poison pill riders that would harm disadvantaged communities, tribal nations and Indigenous Peoples, working families, and the physical environment," says the coalition's letter.

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      U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Grand Staircase of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 2023. ​

      Progressives Rip Effort to Insert Dirty Deal Into Debt Ceiling Hostage Agreement

      "These dangerous and dirty permitting deals are a matter of life and death for millions of people across our country who are already overburdened by decades of fossil fuel pollution," warned one campaigner.

      Jessica Corbett
      May 25, 2023

      Climate action advocates responded with outraged alarm Thursday to reporting that U.S. President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans may try to strike a "dirty deal" on permitting reforms as part of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling.

      The deliberations continue as fears of an economically catastrophic default are growing, with just a week until the U.S. government could run out of money to pay its bills if Congress doesn't increase the debt limit, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

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