Federal Policy Advocate, Kayla Mohammed, from Friends of the Earth, talks about how the environment is doing in debt ceiling negotiations. One of the compromises that was added to the final agreement green-lighted a permitting process for the Mountain Valley natural gas Pipeline. The proposed route covers hundreds of miles of high landslide risk areas, cuts through nationally protected forests, threatens regional waterways and clean drinking water supplies, and will add an additional 90 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere every year — equal to that of 23 new coal plants.

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