July 14, 2022 – Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Thursday that he would not support funding for climate or clean energy programs, thus, along with the Republican Party, effectively torpedoing chances of addressing the climate emergency under this current government.
So, what in the heck is going on with Manchin? Is he worried, as his fellow West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said, that the program is “designed to ultimately eliminate coal and natural gas from our electricity mix, and would be absolutely devastating for my state”?