over budget. It committed more than 500 violations in the two states, according to a count from the environmental group Appalachian Voices.
What House officials say they prevented Republican attempts to gut last year’s climate spending bill and to include a package, known asthat would have enacted bigger rollbacks of air pollution, clean water, and chemical protection laws. White House officials also said that MVP was already likely to be completed anyway in due time — with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management issuing key permits earlier this month.“It’s something that there’s a high degree of interest in, but I think, as a practical matter, this provision doesn’t have much of an effect,” White House climate adviser John Podesta said, according to audio of a call with House Democrats obtained by The Washington Post.