Manchin Scrubs Vote on Energy Agency Nominee Over Gas Stove Rule
- Move is latest salvo in feud with Biden over climate policies
- Manchin says rule part of ‘effort to eliminate fossil fuels’
Joe Manchin
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Senator Joe Manchin pulled his support for an Energy Department nominee in protest of the agency’s plan to regulate gas stoves, the latest skirmish in the Democratic senator’s battle over the Biden administration energy and environment policies.
Manchin, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, scrubbed a vote planned Wednesday on the nomination of Jeff Marootian to be assistant secretary of the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the division charged with spearheading the stove efficiency rule Manchin opposes.