Is the USA legislature going to allow one Senator bought and paid for by Big Oil destroy our home?

Machin is imperiling lives and he does not care. It is incredible to realize that one man so corrupt can actually get away with death of citizens. The dead in Kentucky is still coming in. Currently there is still one person missing.

$577,060 from Big Oil in a quid pro quo relationship opposing all the good measures that President Biden was elected to carry out is at least an ethics issue and the most criminal.

December 19, 2021

By Jennifer Ludden

For months, (click here) West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been watering down the climate provisions in the Build Back Better legislation. Now, his final rejection of a stripped down version effectively kills President Biden's ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions deeply enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. But the objections Manchin described to the bill's climate measures are misleading.

Here's what's really going on:
The free market is not moving fast enough to avert climate catastrophe

In a statement explaining his decision Sunday, Manchin said, "The energy transition my colleagues seek is already well underway." He means the transition from fossil fuels to wind, solar and other forms of renewable power. While it's true the U.S. is shifting away from fossil fuels, it's happening far more slowly than climate scientists say is needed to curtail the carbon pollution that is disrupting the climate.

Earlier this year, Manchin's argument that the U.S. should not "pay companies to do what they're already doing" killed off a keystone Build Back Better provision that would have used carrots and sticks — payments and penalties — to push utilities to speed up the shift to renewables, roughly doubling the amount of wind, solar, and other forms of clean energy put on the grid each year....