Manchin serves up a shit sandwich

Brian Schatz & Joe Biden: "Delicious!"

PRESENTED BY DONALD TRUMP’S DREAM

Emily Cochrane @ESCochrane

Tester on waiting for Manchin’s permitting reform bill: “If I could see it, then I could be much more ‘Yeah, this is the best thing to do since sliced bread. But since I haven’t seen it, I’ve got to reserve a little bit of — because it might be a piece of shit, I don’t know.”

The wait is over: around 6 pm yesterday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-Coal Baron) continued his vendetta against Kate Aronoff and released 91 pages of pro-fossil-fuel “permitting reform” that were in line with the previously leaked American Petroleum Institute draft and his pledge that “this is something the Republican Party has wanted for the last five to seven years I’ve been with them.”

As it turns out, Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) was right about the deal being a “piece of shit” in between “sliced bread.”

Ecomodernist dudes like Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and the Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer want to talk about the artisanal sourdough of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission getting authority over high-voltage transmission siting, but not the heaping, steaming piles of mandatory fast-tracking of fossil-fuel projects ranging from the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline to offshore drilling.

Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff

Lots of talk about land use and renewables and NIMBYs but I feel like expropriating the like 6 families that own 75 percent of land in the West should at least be on the table

Climate journalists Lee Harris and Julia Rock dug into a key provision of Manchin’s bill, finding it a fracking-industry dream, as it would compel “the president to unilaterally speed up a handful of energy projects, while requiring that at least five of them boost fossil fuels.”

After President Joe Biden took one of the first bites of Manchin’s plan, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shared, he announced: “This sandwich is DELICIOUS!”

Maybe Biden’s bout with COVID gave him anosmia? Better get that checked out by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

“Mindless approval of fracked gas pipelines was Donald Trump’s dream, so why is Congress doing this now when lawmakers know better?" asks Center for Biological Diversity’s Brett Hartl. “We don’t need to gut the Clean Water Act and other bedrock environmental laws to build out wind and solar energy."

Fortunately, some folks’ olfactory sense is still working, thanks to the efforts of thousands of climate justice activists around the country.

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) called the plan’s mandating of the Mountain Valley Pipeline “completely unacceptable.”

• Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) has penned a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) opposing the environmental injustice of Manchin’s plan; his letter has been signed by Senate EJ Caucus co-founders Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), as well as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

IPL (DC.MD.NoVA) #NoMVP @IPLdmv

Yesterday morning, some members of Temple @rodefshalom's Sustainability Initiative -- including Rabbi @jeffreysaxe & Cantor Rachel Rhodes -- called on Senators @timkaine & @MarkWarner to oppose any #dirtydeal that would impose pollution & pipelines on their neighbors. #NoMVP

Fiona is now a Cat 4 storm, barreling towards Bermuda, as “more than a half million people in Puerto Rico remained without water service” and "more than 1 million customers in Puerto Rico were still without power.”

Fossil-fueled heat in the Midwest smashes records, from Wichita (100°) to Rapid City (97°).

Staten Island’s Oakwood Beach community is disappearing to the rising seas.

Fossil-fueled wildfires are killing off New Mexican fish.

“This is how a Pacific atoll dies.”

The godwits are relentless.

Paul Cunniffe @paul_cunniffe1

A tiny goldcrest taken this morning. Europe’s smallest bird, weighing in at a minuscule 6g. #mossley #goldcrest #saddleworth #nature #wildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity #birds #birding #wildlifephotography

Checking in on the fossil-fuel industry: JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon told Congress “that the US needs to invest in the fossil-fuel industry to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.” Sure, that’ll work.

A fire at BP’s 103-year-old Oregon, Ohio refinery killed two workers. BP is not releasing further details.

Duke Energy is a sulfur hexafluoride super-polluter.

Germany nationalizes natural-gas importing giant Uniper, as the country’s decades-old bet on private energy markets and Russian gas collapses.

Senate Energy holds a hearing on batteries and energy storage.

In music news:

No Kings No Masters Only Wooloo @MockWooloo

When indie bands go bad

THE FINAL WORD: At Rep. Jared Huffman’s hearing on the Public Lands and Waters Climate Leadership Act yesterday, climate scientist Andrew Dessler explained that “adaptation” is used by climate deniers as code for human suffering, and continued:

“What the science clearly shows us is that the Earth is warming, humans are to blame for the warming, and the magnitude of future warming is going to be extremely large.”

Hearings on the Hill:

• 10 AM: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
  Opportunities and Challenges in Deploying Innovative Battery and Non-Battery Technologies for Energy Storage

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