His beloved West Virginia is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production among the 50 states.
Manchin is also closely associated with the fossil fuel industry. 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.īut Mr.
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