After a year of negotiations, senator tells Democratic party leaders he won’t support any climate spending
Good morning, US politics blog readers. After a year of negotiations, Democrats’ aspirations to pass major climate change aspirations died at the hands of one of their own: Senator Joe Manchin, who told party leaders yesterday he would not support any such legislation, nor the tax increases to pay for it. The United States is the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and the failure to address that will impact not just Americans, but the entire world.
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