01-26-2021, 01:41 PM
Manchin will be the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Biden won’t get anything done on climate change unless Manchin can craft it as jobs improvement. Manchin is still deeply invested, both politically and personally in coal. He’ll either be the Democrats’ best friend or a closeted Republican.
He likes to draw the analogy to tourism, as if the coal industry, merely by dint of it existing, is worthy of protection. But until he recognizes the business model is broken we’ll all have problems that stretch far beyond W. VA.
He likes to draw the analogy to tourism, as if the coal industry, merely by dint of it existing, is worthy of protection. But until he recognizes the business model is broken we’ll all have problems that stretch far beyond W. VA.