Dems are going to try to find other big emission reductions, but ultimately you're circling around an unsolvable problem. The only way to get rapid near-term reductions is by closing FF power plants & building out renewables. Manchin opposes *that goal*, not the means.
Manchin's premise is that coal & natural gas plants should be allowed to run until they can be outfitted with CCS. That's delusional -- it will never be economic & if we wait that long we're toast. The debate over mechanisms is somewhat beside the point; there's no shared goal.
That's what Manchin & Republicans mean when they talk about "innovation rather than elimination." They mean: don't close the FF plants, make them clean. Which sounds neat conceptually but is in practice deeply & fundamentally unworkable.
Everyone around Manchin has to indulge him in this fantasy, though, because he's a vain old conservative white guy with a prickly ego and they need his vote to do any-damn-thing. Everyone's trying to flatter & back him into things.
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