As goes West Virginia— #1 in opioid addiction, #2 in obesity, #45 in education—so goes the nation.

Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition.

The most powerful part of President Biden’s climate agenda — a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy — will likely be dropped from the massive budget bill pending in Congress, according to congressional staffers and lobbyists familiar with the matter.

Senator Joe Manchin III, the Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia whose vote is crucial to passage of the bill, has told the White House that he strongly opposes the clean electricity program…As a result, White House staffers are now rewriting the legislation without that climate provision, and are trying to cobble together a mix of other policies that could also cut emissions.

www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html