<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">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 class="elementor-element elementor-element-3a874ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:860px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px"><h1 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" 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 class="elementor-element elementor-element-5446d27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;width:860px;font-size:16px"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" 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 class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__author gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-left:0px;font-size:14px;margin-right:5px"><a class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val gmail-molongui-disabled-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,29,30);display:inline-block;font-weight:700"><br></a></div></div><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__author gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-left:0px;font-size:14px;margin-right:5px"><a class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val gmail-molongui-disabled-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,29,30);display:inline-block;font-weight:700">Zach Roberts</a></div><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__date gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:4px">on</span><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block">Apr 12, 2022 @ 15:35 PDT</span></div><br></div><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box">Excerpt from article:</div><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" 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 class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" 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" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">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" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">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" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">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: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