U.S. right-wing senator says he won't support legislation to tax the rich and combat climate crisis

Washington, July 16 (RHC)-- On Capitol Hill, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin told Democratic leaders he will not support legislation to combat the climate emergency — or any tax increases on the wealthy and large corporations. 

According to reports from the U.S. capital, this is the latest blow by the right-wing Manchin against Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and could spell the death knell for a watered-down version of the Build Back Better package in the Senate, where Democrats hold a razor-thin majority. 

The youth-led climate justice group the Sunrise Movement called Manchin’s decision “nothing short of a death sentence,” and climate activist Bill McKibben tweeted in response: “Manchin has taken more money from the fossil fuel industry than anyone else in DC.  And the return on that investment has been enormous.  Big Oil got its money worth a thousand times over.”