If Democrats are to fight climate change, he wants them to do it the old fashioned way — his way. Promising quarterback for the West Virginia University Mountaineers until a knee injury ended his career. When Manchin talks with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), he draws an analogy between tourism in Hawaii and coal in West Virginia. Manchin boarded a trawler on the Rhode Island Sound so fishermen could tell the coal state senator about how climate change had affected their livelihoods. Still, climate change can’t be ignored, even in coal country.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2021 00:01 UTC