The West Virginia senator, a conservative Democrat who is the biggest recipient of donations from fossil fuel companies in Congress and who owns a stake in a coal brokerage his son runs, left fellow Democrats seething after he said he could not support new spending on climate measures or tax increases. The decision came even as lawmakers came close to a deal with Biden administration officials.
Senator Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee said Manchin's decision to walk away was frustrating since "nearly all issues in the climate and energy space had been resolved." "We need to salvage as much of this package as possible," Wyden said in a statement. "If the Senate will not move to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, I will take strong executive action to meet this moment."
Whitehouse laid out 10 federal actions that the White House could take to sidestep Congress and tackle climate policies using executive authority -- though such actions could be reversed or weakened by a future president. But Jamal Raad, the head of nonprofit group Evergreen Action which helped craft the legislation, said there are "still a lot of existing authorities under the Clean Air Act" to take on pollutants such as particulates from the power sector that can have the added benefit of lowering carbon emissions.
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