Manchin Vows to Block Biden’s EPA Nominees on Power Plant ‘Overreach’

Senator Joe Manchin during a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, May 2.Photographer: Tom Brenner/Bloomberg
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Senator Joe Manchin vowed to oppose President Joe Biden’s nominees to fill key positions at the US Environmental Protection Agency over its forthcoming plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The proposed regulations, scheduled to be unveiled Thursday, are part of an administration agenda “designed to kill the fossil industry by a thousand cuts,” Manchin said in a statement Wednesday.