Which doesn’t bode well for defusing the climate emergency, given Manchin’s longstanding opposition to ambitious climate action.
It turns out that the Senator wielding this awesome power – America’s climate decider-in-chief, one might call him – has a massive climate conflict of interest.
Joe Manchin, investigative journalism has revealed, is a modern-day coal baron.
Coal has been the primary driver of global warming since coal began fueling the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain 250 years ago.
Today, the science is clear: coal must be phased out, starting immediately and around the world, to keep the 1.5C target within reach.
Like ExxonMobil, the senator appears to have jettisoned outright climate denial in favor of its more presentable, but no less lethal, cousin: climate delay.
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