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At the center of the ongoing debate over permitting reform—now encapsulated in Senator Joe Manchin’s Energy Independence and Security Act—lies a single unfinished piece of energy infrastructure: the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Stretching from northern West Virginia through to southern Virginia, the 300-plus-mile-long project is slated to transport two billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day, much of that bound for export. Manchin’s bill would speed along the project’s construction, fast-tracking... Читать дальше...

As the Supreme Court prepares to kick off its next, sure-to-be-eventful term, the high court faces ballooning public skepticism about its evident appetite to “take” what President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general, Charles Fried, labeled, “a constitutional wrecking ball to generations of Supreme Court doctrine.” Three major public opinion polls have shown sharp declines in the court’s favorability since Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization first leaked. Читать дальше...

Speaking earlier this month in Philadelphia in front of Independence Hall—bathed, cinematically, in blood-red light, so that he could really get the metaphor across—President Joe Biden laid out what he and Democrats hope will be the most important theme of the 2022 midterm elections: that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the future of the republic and to democracy itself. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said... Читать дальше...