by Brian Roewe, December 22, 2021
EarthBeat
Days after U.S. Senator Joe Manchin announced his opposition to the president’s nearly $2 trillion social and climate bill, several West Virginia. faith leaders delivered a Christmas card asking he reconsider and salvage the Build Back Better Act, and with it the nation’s largest-ever investments toward combating climate change…
“There are a lot of provisions in Build Back Better that would benefit West Virginians, and we hope that he will reconsider and support that bill,” Robin Blakeman, a Presbyterian pastor and part of the steering committee for West Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, a state chapter of the interreligious U.S. environmental network, told EarthBeat. Read More
