Sen. Joe Manchin III used his perch atop the chamber’s Energy Committee to shine the spotlight Wednesday on a contentious issue that could ease power outages while also jolting the president’s green energy agenda: the fast-tracking of interstate transmission-line projects.
They all emphasized that bolstering the country’s transmission lines comes down to three key questions facing lawmakers: how projects are planned, how they are paid for and how they are permitted.
“But in the limited instances where there is a project that is in the national interest and it gets stuck at the state level, we need an efficient federal backstop to provide a pathway for the project to get the permits and be fairly paid for, based on benefits received,” he said. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate’s No. 3 Republican and ranking member of the Energy Committee, said any legislation on transmission must address two core concerns: stopping the “premature retirement of coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants,” and fair cost allocation for states to receive clean energy.
Mr. Manchin also took his latest swipe at Mr. Biden’s climate agenda, saying the administration’s failure to greenlight more oil and natural gas lease sales on federal lands and in waters — a policy set forth under the Democrats’ tax-and-climate spending law known as the Inflation Reduction Act — would slow the flow of clean energy spending tied to the lease sales.
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