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This Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft the U.S. Climate Plan
"Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change
"Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says""
Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats’ sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program.
Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, represents a state that is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production, and personally profits from stock he owns in his family’s coal brokerage. Al Drago for The New York Times
Coral Davenport
By Coral Davenport
Sept. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Mr. Manchin has already emerged as the crucial up-or-down vote in a sharply divided Senate when it comes to Mr. Biden’s push to pass a $3.5 trillion budget bill that could reshape the nation’s social welfare network. But Mr. Biden also wants the bill to include an aggressive climate policy that would compel utilities to stop burning fossil fuels and switch to wind, solar or nuclear energy, sources that do not emit the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Manchin holds the pen and the gavel of the congressional panel, with the authority to shape Mr. Biden’s ambitions.
But Mr. Manchin is also closely associated with the fossil fuel industry. His beloved West Virginia is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production among the 50 states. In the current election cycle, Mr. Manchin has received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets .. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/joe-manchin/industries?cid=N00032838&cycle=2022&type=C , a research organization that tracks political spending.
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/climate/manchin-climate-biden.html
"Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change
"Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says""
Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats’ sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program.
Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, represents a state that is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production, and personally profits from stock he owns in his family’s coal brokerage. Al Drago for The New York Times
Coral Davenport
By Coral Davenport
Sept. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Mr. Manchin has already emerged as the crucial up-or-down vote in a sharply divided Senate when it comes to Mr. Biden’s push to pass a $3.5 trillion budget bill that could reshape the nation’s social welfare network. But Mr. Biden also wants the bill to include an aggressive climate policy that would compel utilities to stop burning fossil fuels and switch to wind, solar or nuclear energy, sources that do not emit the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Manchin holds the pen and the gavel of the congressional panel, with the authority to shape Mr. Biden’s ambitions.
But Mr. Manchin is also closely associated with the fossil fuel industry. His beloved West Virginia is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production among the 50 states. In the current election cycle, Mr. Manchin has received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets .. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/joe-manchin/industries?cid=N00032838&cycle=2022&type=C , a research organization that tracks political spending.
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/climate/manchin-climate-biden.html
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