West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin criticized President Biden for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” after vowing to shutter coal-fired power plants. Manchin said Biden's words “ignore the severe economic pain” for people from higher energy prices.
, a government agency, reports a yearly average of 39,518 employees at U.S. coal mines in 2021, compared with 91,611 in 2011, 51,795 in 2016 and 42,159 in 2020. Wyoming is the leader in coal production.Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement that Biden’s remarks were “not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.
Such remarks, Manchin said, “are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden. … It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day.”to Biden winning passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the biggest investment in climate programs in U.S. history, slammed Biden for “offensive and disgusting” words and said the president owed West Virginia coal workers “an immediate and public apology.
The White House said Biden was “commenting on a fact of economics and technology” at a time when the country is undertaking an “energy transition” that he is working to ensure means “more jobs and better opportunities. ... No one will be left behind.” The EIA projects that coal generation is expected to decline from 22.5% of U.S. electricity in 2021 to 21.1% in 2022, before falling to 19.9% in 2023 -– the same coal generation share as 2020 when production hit its lowest level in decades, in part because of COVID-19. Natural gas is expected to make up for some of coal’s declining share in 2022 and beyond. Coal produced more than 40% of U.S. electricity though 2011 before a steep decline caused by the fracking boom.
Then, this past summer, Manchin suddenly reversed course and backed a revised bill that became law with only Democratic votes.Follow AP’s coverage of the elections at: https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the 2022 midterm elections.
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