The Joe Manchin climate doctrine

The climate plan he creates will be exactly what the fossil fuel industry paid for.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) holds a Town Hall meeting with coal miners on March 31, 2017 in Matewan, West Virginia. Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images.

Senator Joe Manchin owns several coal companies. Well, technically, his son owns them now. But the West Virginia Democrat still profits immensely from the world’s most climate-polluting fuel. So it makes…