House Energy Panel Advances Pipeline Bill Amid Democrats’ Criticism

Republicans on a House Energy & Commerce Committee panel are advancing legislation that would reauthorize pipeline safety programs as well as various other provisions easing the build-out of pipelines to carry natural gas, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide. But the legislation is drawing a strong rebuke from committee Democrats, who charge the package contains multiple partisan policy provisions that eschew the bipartisan approach used in several prior pipeline safety bills and in a separate bill developed by the House Transportation &...