Selling scrap coal has earned Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel — and a single power plant in West Virginia that burns it — from laws and regulations that also threatened his family business. E&E News reporter Scott Waldman reports.
Selling scrap coal has earned Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel — and a single power plant in West Virginia that burns it — from laws and regulations that also threatened his family business. E&E News reporter Scott Waldman reports.
Scott Waldman is the White House reporter for E&E News focused on climate change.
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