Today on TAP: The Build Back Better bill’s support for both exemplifies the just transition we need to save the planet. And—surprise—Joe Manchin doesn’t like it.
West Virginia
Posted inBuilding Back America
Manchin Could Score Carbon Capture Subsidies to Prop Up Coal
In September, Joe Manchin was told carbon capture would need heavy federal subsidies to keep coal running in West Virginia. Now, a supercharged tax credit is in Build Back Better.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Manchin Poised to Profit From Mine Reclamation Funding He Championed
Enersystems, Joe Manchin’s family coal company, has contracts with the only power plant in West Virginia that burns coal from reclaimed mine projects.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Manchin Profits From Coal Sales to Utility Lobbying Group Members
Here’s what we found about the Manchin family coal brokerage and its business with members of the powerful Edison Electric Institute.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Fossil Fuel–Funded Think Tank Takes Tonko to Coal Country
Congressional exchanges that overlook the climate crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Even West Virginia Bows to Solar
The epicenter of coal country belatedly begins to acknowledge the realities of renewables.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Green Transition for West Virginia
Robert Kuttner in conversation with Robert Pollin
Posted inPolitics
The Manchin Conundrum
He sure ought to favor a large infrastructure program for West Virginia.
Posted inPolitics
Kyrsten Sinema Pressure Campaign Goes Up in Arizona
New ad campaign hits the senior senator on her resistance to ending the filibuster.
Posted inPolitics
In West Virginia, Stephen Smith Falls Short, but His Movement Stays Strong
At least 32 members of the anti-corruption West Virginia Can’t Wait slate advance to the general election.
