{"id":1935547,"date":"2023-05-22T09:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchin-says-hes-a-climate-moderate-he-just-voted-to-confirm-radical-energy-nominee-who-wants-to-kill-the-coal-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:34:04","slug":"joe-manchin-says-hes-a-climate-moderate-he-just-voted-to-confirm-radical-energy-nominee-who-wants-to-kill-the-coal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchin-says-hes-a-climate-moderate-he-just-voted-to-confirm-radical-energy-nominee-who-wants-to-kill-the-coal-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin claims to be a moderate on climate, but supported a nominee who aims to destroy the coal industry."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-manchin-says-hes-a-climate-moderate-he-just-voted-to-confirm-radical-energy-nominee-who-wants-to-kill-the-coal-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1935547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Joe Manchin Votes to Confirm Biden Nominee with Radical Climate Proposals<\/h2>\n<p>Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) has been ramping up criticisms of his party\u2019s radical climate proposals as he prepares for a tough reelection battle in 2024. However, the West Virginia Democrat recently voted to advance a Biden nominee who wants to eradicate the coal industry, mandate that corporations become &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; by 2025, and has urged activists to &#8220;name and shame&#8221; energy companies.<\/p>\n<h3>David Crane&#8217;s Radical Climate Proposals<\/h3>\n<p>David Crane, a former director at the state-owned Saudi Electricity Company, wants to eradicate the coal industry, mandate that major corporations become &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; by 2025, and urged activists to &#8220;name and shame&#8221; companies that fail to fall in line. Crane called for the top 100 corporations in America to become carbon-neutral by 2025, a measure that he acknowledged would be &#8220;rough&#8221; on the companies. He endorsed the Green New Deal in 2019 and acknowledged that air travel and meat consumption may have to be curtailed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-concerning-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Concerning Foreign Policy\">fight climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Manchin&#8217;s criticisms of the Biden administration&#8217;s climate policies, he voted to confirm Crane as undersecretary for infrastructure at the Department of Energy. Manchin asserted that Crane &#8220;is well qualified&#8221; for the job, which will oversee infrastructure projects under the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin&#8217;s vote highlights the tightrope he\u2019s tried to walk as a red state Democrat facing a difficult election year. Manchin, who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-joe-biden-job-approval-rating-crashes-to-38-percent\/\" title=\"Poll: Joe Biden Job Approval Rating Crashes to 38 Percent\">55 percent disapproval rating<\/a> in his home state, blasted the Biden administration this month for failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that\/\" title=\"Manchin criticizes Biden for not pursuing offshore oil, despite voting against a measure that would have required the administration to do so.\">develop offshore oil<\/a> and gas but voted last year against a measure that would do just that. Manchin recently threatened to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchin-says-hes-a-climate-moderate-he-just-voted-to-confirm-radical-energy-nominee-who-wants-to-kill-the-coal-industry\/\" title=\"Manchin claims to be a moderate on climate, but supported a nominee who aims to destroy the coal industry.\">massive climate-heavy spending bill<\/a> that he negotiated last year with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.).<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Consequences for Senate Democrats<\/h3>\n<p>Manchin is not the only embattled Senate Democrat whose support for a Biden nominee could come back to bite them next year. Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), who is up for reelection next year, voted to confirm Jared Bernstein, the nominee for chairman of the White House Counsel of Economic Advisers. Bernstein complained that the price of gasoline &#8220;is too low&#8221; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-reporter-asks-for-raising-gas-prices-on-middle-class-to-cut-fossil-fuel-consumption\/\" title=\"NYT Reporter Asks for Raising Gas Prices on Middle Class to Cut Fossil Fuel Consumption\">curtail climate change<\/a>. Bernstein has also opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that Tester supports.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how Manchin&#8217;s vote for Crane will affect his reelection campaign in 2024. However, his support for a nominee with such radical climate proposals may not sit well with his constituents in West Virginia, where the coal industry contributes $14 billion to the state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Crane suggests reducing air travel and meat consumption to combat climate change. Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) has intensified his opposition to his party&#8217;s extreme climate policies as he gears up for a challenging re-election campaign in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1935548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6094,4856,4321,4428,6539,6984,4426,14775,4904,9460],"class_list":["post-1935547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-aims","tag-claims","tag-climate","tag-coal","tag-destroy","tag-industry","tag-manchin","tag-moderate","tag-nominee","tag-supported"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}