Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia apparently doesn't like being reminded that he killed a $150 billion climate change provision in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill that could have directly impacted his personal fortune. The Washington Post recalls an episode in September when he was asked about his family's coal business, Enersystems, which has earned millions selling waste coal from abandoned mines to a power plant in West Virginia that “emits air pollution at a higher rate than any other plant in the state," according to the Post. “I have been in a blind trust for 20 years. I have no idea what they’re doing,” the senator told reporters about his family’s coal firm. “You got a problem?” Read more