For interstate pipelines, what was important about the Inflation Reduction Act was not just what was in the bill - the new methane fee - but what was not in the bill: the pipeline permitting reforms that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) had initially insisted be part of the bill. Manchin relented under pressure from Democrats who promised Manchin they would support a separate permitting reform bill before the end of the year.
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