US Senator Manchin is supporting the climate bill that former vice-president, Al Gore says “has the potential to be a historic turning point”.
However, there is a catch, of course: Manchin has said the legislation “does not arbitrarily shut off our abundant fossil fuels” and has extracted guarantees of new offshore and onshore drilling, including a stipulation that millions more acres of public lands be opened for fossil fuel companies before new solar or wind energy projects can do the same.
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