I avoid bringing up politics in this blog, but the following is beyond the pale. Senator Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, represents a state second in coal and seventh in natural gas production, and personally profits from stock he owns in his family’s coal brokerage. He earned half a million dollars last year from coal production and has received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator. And yet he will write the details of the sweeping budget bill’s climate change program.
www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/climate/manchin-climate-biden.html
www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/24/oil-gas-industry-us-lawmakers-campaign-donations-analysis
www.opensecrets.org/industries./recips.php?ind=E01++