The Real Reason Joe Manchin Is Sabotaging the US Clean Energy Plan

15 Jul 2022 | Abstracted from Electrek

"Employees and political action committees for out-of-state oil and gas companies -- most of which are based in Texas -- dwarfed contributions from in-state [West Virginia] individuals and political action committees by more than tenfold, according to the senator's newly filed quarterly campaign finance report.

"One man's greed is going to hurt the world's entire population of 7.75 billion people."

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