John,

As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
Joe Manchin is responsible for regulating the fossil fuel industry, but he
has a glaring conflict of interest… he owns millions of dollars in coal
stocks and earns half a million dollars on them each year from dividends
alone.

It's no wonder that after Manchin attended an invite-only coal conference,
he immediately pushed to make cuts to the Clean Electricity Performance
Program, a $150 billion initiative in the Build Back Better Act that would
financially reward utilities for transitioning to renewable energy and
penalize those that don’t.

At a time when global temperatures are continuing to rise and extreme
weather events are getting worse every year, it’s clear a coal baron can
not be in charge of Senate climate policy.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: Replace Senator Joe Manchin
as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources now.

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Senate committees hold hearings on key climate policy issues, develop bill
proposals, and report legislative recommendations to the full Senate
chamber.

Why then is Manchin, who said earlier this year that the goal of
eliminating fossil fuels is “very, very disturbing”, the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in a
Democratic-controlled Senate?

He has even attacked environmentalists because he believes they are
unfairly targeting the burning of coal.

Given Manchin’s deep ties to the coal industry and personal conflict of
interests, he can not continue to lead Senate Democrats’ climate policy
and must be immediately replaced as Chair of the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: Replace Senator Joe Manchin
as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources NOW!

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Thank you for taking action. Seriously addressing the climate crisis is
going to require all of us.

- Tre

Tre Graves
Digital Organizing Coordinator
Democracy for America




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