Joe Manchin, America's climate decider-in-chief, is a coal baron | Mark Hertsgaard

The pivotal Democratic senator owns millions of dollars in coal stocks. Shouldn't he recuse himself from US climate talks?Joe Manchin has never been this famous. People around the world now know that the West Virginia Democrat is the essential 50th vote in the US Senate that president Joe Biden needs to pass his agenda into law. That includes Biden's climate agenda. 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. Continue reading...