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The approval of West Virginia’s Mountain Valley Pipeline included in the debt-limit deal by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is spurring action from climate protesters.
Activists with the group Climate Defiance blocked traffic on Tuesday in New York City and protested outside the Brooklyn residence of Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer.
The same organization has plans to crash a Wednesday morning panel hosted by the Economist in Washington featuring Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk.
The debt ceiling legislation, which Congress is racing to pass before an expected June 5 default deadline, greenlights the $6.6 billion, 300-mile natural-gas pipeline that is in its final construction phases but has been held up for years by legal hurdles.
The backlash is the latest example of the frustration among Democrats and green activists with Mr. Biden allowing the agreement to include the natural gas project, despite other anti-fossil fuel actions his administration has taken to combat climate change.
“The dirty deal does not work for our generation. Full stop. Our ‘climate president’ sold us out to a coal baron Senator,” Climate Defiance wrote on Twitter in a reference to Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat.
