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Manchin, Kelly Join GOP in Passing Motion to Bar Biden From Declaring Climate Emergency
"Our political leadership is out to kill most of us," lamented one climate justice advocate.Two right-wing Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Kelly of Arizona, crossed the aisle Wednesday to help Republicans approve a motion aimed at barring President Joe Biden from declaring a climate emergency, a step that green groups have been pressuring him to take since his first day in office.
The nonbinding motion, sponsored by Sen. Shelley Capito (R-W.Va.) and approved by a vote of 49-47, states that Biden "cannot use climate change as the basis to declare a national emergency." House and Senate lawmakers will consider the motion as part of their efforts to finalize legislation packed with subsidies to profitable microchip corporations.
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Manchin, Kelly Join GOP in Passing Motion to Bar Biden From Declaring Climate Emergency
"Our political leadership is out to kill most of us," lamented one climate justice advocate.
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