Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday responded dismissively to a reporter's question about the glaring conflict of interest posed by his family's ownership of a business that is
from coal waste—a toxic energy source that the West Virginia Democrat is actively promoting in the Senate."I mean, I live in coal country, so if you don't work in coal country, you don’t work in West Virginia, usually," Manchin added.to push Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk on why the Biden administration isn't devoting more federal resources toward expanding the use of coal waste, also known as gob—an acronym for"garbage of bituminous.
\u201cEnvironmental groups have been calling for coal ash regulations that would classify the material as a hazardous waste and create more rigorous requirements for storing and transporting the ash. https://t.co/roR91SBBp7 @AdamAton\u201dManchin has insisted for years that he doesn't have any influence over his family business—which is called Enersystems and run by the senator's son—and that he has set up a blind trust for his company holdings.
Enersystems provides gob, a leftover of coal mining, to West Virginia's Grant Town power plant—the only power plant in the state that burns the substance.in December 2021 that"documents filed by the senator show the blind trust is much too small to account for all his reported earnings from the coal company.
"If Manchin's coal interests are not in a blind trust, ethics experts said, it calls into question the impartiality of a senator who in October forced Biden to drop the plan in his Build Back Better bill to phase out the same kinds of coal plants that are key to his family company's profitability," theManchin has wasted no time in the new Congress working to advance the interests of the fossil fuel industry,...
MaryWebb7 I thought using your elected position to make money was the entire point of being a Senator?
So typical of that grifter.
Self destruction.
Self promotion.
Sen_JoeManchin How do I put this... Screw your way of life. It is my hope that not only President Biden, but caring Americans everywhere work dilligently to remove coal from our energy equation. Anything less is asking for planetary disaster.
Toxic? The man himself is toxic to America. If we survive, it's despite people like him.