Joe Manchin Throws Fuel on the Fire of a Burning Planet
Joe Manchin didn’t just deal Democrats a “setback.” He didn’t only deliver a “crushing blow” to President Joe Biden. In pulling the rug out from under his negotiating partners — for the umpteenth time in the last year and a half— the West Virginia conservative may have doomed the last, best chance to pass legislation combating climate change for the foreseeable future. “We are not going to meet our targets, period,” environmental scientist Leah Stokes, who has advised congressional Democrats on climate legislation, told the New York Times on Friday. “I honestly don’t know how he is going to look… Read Full Article
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