<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#333333" face="Rubik, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Important quote from the article referenced below:</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Manchin, who has a </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/13/manchin-blind-trust-enersystems-stock-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">blind trust set up</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> for his investments, has continually been a one-man blockade for climate legislation. That came to a head this year when he essentially killed the Build Back Better bill, Biden’s signature climate and social policy legislation, by dropping his (some might argue </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/12/19/scoop-manchin-refused-a-call-from-wh-before-killing-bbb-495521" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">never serious</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">) support of it. He closed his </span><a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-statement-on-build-back-better-act" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">statement</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> with, “I will continue working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to address the needs of all Americans and do so in a way that does not risk our nation’s independence, security and way of life.”</span><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 7:34 PM Ted Moffett <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/04/12/west-virginia-grant-town-protest-joe-manchin-coal-profits/?utm_source=DeSmog%27s+Weekly+Newsletter" target="_blank">https://www.desmog.com/2022/04/12/west-virginia-grant-town-protest-joe-manchin-coal-profits/?utm_source=DeSmog%27s+Weekly+Newsletter</a><br><div><br></div><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;width:860px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:1;font-size:30px;padding:0px">West Virginia Protest Calls out Manchin’s Coal Profits</h1></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;width:860px;font-size:16px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box">Over the weekend, 16 people were arrested after trying to block the entrance to the Grant Town Power Plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Manchin’s company.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-left:0px;font-size:14px;margin-right:5px"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,29,30);display:inline-block;font-weight:700"><br></a></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-left:0px;font-size:14px;margin-right:5px"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,29,30);display:inline-block;font-weight:700">Zach Roberts</a></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:4px">on</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block">Apr 12, 2022 @ 15:35 PDT</span></div><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box">Excerpt from article:</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box">On Saturday, April 9, a group of more than 50 activists from the region and around the country convened on a coal power plant in West Virginia, calling for it to be closed and rallying around a small blockade outside its entrance. By the end of the day, 16 of them had been arrested. <br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem">The plant the protesters targeted, in Grant Town, West Virginia, isn’t just any of the <a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-05-coal-power-trump.html" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">over 200 coal power plants</a> still operating in the United States. It’s the one where Sen. Joe Manchin makes nearly $500,000 per year selling a dirty coal waste called “gob.” </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem">Gob is short for “<a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.178.9510&rep=rep1&type=pdf" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">garbage of bituminous</a>,” which, according to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3x8bw/joe-manchin-senator-millions-coal-grant-town-west-virginia" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">VICE News</a>, Sen. Manchin sells to the power plant for a tidy profit via Enersystems, the company he founded and that his son now runs. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem">--------------------------------------</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></span></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></span></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></span></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></span></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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