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New appointments to the West Virginia Special Reclamation Fund Advisory Council included a member recommended by environmental groups to represent them after concern about removal of the previous member statutorily required to represent them on the board. Gov. Jim Justice appointed West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club chairman Jim Kotcon to serve on the board.

Why do you suppose Representative Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, accused Senator Manchin of betraying his commitment not only to the President and Democrats in Congress but most importantly, to the American people?

The United States may be urgently transitioning from its long reliance on fossil fuels to generate electricity, but West Virginia and its senior senator, Democrat Joe Manchin III, appear to