KENNEBEC JOURNAL • July 23, 2022
Climate change is stoking life-threatening heat and wildfires in Europe while tens of millions of Americans broil under excessive heat this week. But President Biden’s best hope for serious climate action has collapsed. On Thursday, Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III said he would not support his party’s climate legislation, extinguishing any lingering prospects of congressional action and increasing the likelihood that we and future generations will experience catastrophic levels of warming. He strung along his colleagues for more than a year in a fruitless exercise of bad-faith negotiation and appeasement. Manchin has made it clear he cannot be trusted to deliver something as basic as a single vote to protect people from the ravages of an overheating planet. ~ Los Angeles Times