Sen. Joe Manchin Takes Advantage of GOP Extremism Despite Community Opposition

Joe Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Is Poised to Wreak Havoc

“The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), touted as the most extended and largest-capacity new gas pipeline in the eastern United States, is an environmentally destructive project that threatens the well-being of Appalachian communities in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. We must stop it.

Community opposition had successfully blocked the 300-mile pipeline, but in the recent debt ceiling negotiations, Sen. Joe Manchin took advantage of GOP extremism to extract promises to fast-track the construction of the MVP. This pipeline is poised to wreak havoc on West Virginia and southwest Virginia’s low-wealth, Black, and indigenous communities and plunge us further into the climate crisis. As a veterans organization, we know that climate change is an existential threat facing our country and communities, and building more pipelines only worsens the problem.

The resilient Appalachian communities refuse to be silenced or overlooked. However, disheartening reports have exposed a troubling “side deal” that prioritizes the fossil fuel industry’s interests over the well-being of the communities it purports to serve.

Joe Manchin’s debt deal only serves to solidify the status of Appalachian communities as sacrifice zones, their voices stifled and their concerns ignored.” ¹

“It’s time to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline system, aka MVP, and its dangerous attempts to transport dirty fracked gas across Appalachia. This massive dirty energy project makes no more sense today than when it was first proposed more than five years ago. It would keep communities dependent on dirty fossil fuels for generations while jeopardizing sensitive rivers and streams, drinking water sources, the climate, and local communities.” ²