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Droughts and almost every county in west virginia has seen massive flooding. >> but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, weve cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin oekd this monday. >> we want to make sure we have reliable power. we have basically cleaned up the environment more than any other time in the history of this world. >> reporter: west virginia university professor zegg has studied the state and climate change for 11 years. he say...

Change, you cant blame every undesirable weather event on west virginia coal. we dont have serious droughts here. we dont have serious fires here. we have a little bit of flooding. >> reporter: ordered a state of emergency because there were multiple counties going through droughts, and almost every county in west virginia has seen massive flooding. >> but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, weve cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoe...

>> but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, weve cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoed this monday. >> we want to make sure we have reliable power. we have basically cleaned up the environment more than any other time in the history of this world. >> reporter: prefer nicholas zegg has studied the state and climate change for 11 years. he says breaking through the complexity of the issue feels impossible. >> climate change is so compl...

Trust is valued between $1 million and $5 million. will you be okay knowing that west virginia could continue to get hit by severe flooding because we as a country failed to curb green house gases? >> i think the premise is filled with malarkey, i really do. now, again, you know, we are sensitive to the fact that if were contributing towards climate change, but you cant blame every undesierable weathe event on west virginia coal. we dont have serious droughts here or serious fires. >> reporter: ...

We dont have serious droughts here. we dont have serious fires here. we have a little bit of flooding. >> ordered a state of emergency because there were multiple counties going through -- through droughts and almost every county in west virginia has seen massive flooding. >> not -- but -- but -- but its very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, we have cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoed this monday. >> we have -- we have basically cleaned...

This administration wants to limit it here and i understand they want to limit polougz. we all want that ones. we stop using coal because of epa regoulgzs and they sell their coal to china that have dirty energy plans in china and the world polougz becomes worse because we are not using the coal in our clone coal plants? >> first, let me say to rich and carl. i do the jokes around here. >> we all get a joke. >> and number two, that is a weird argument. it is pretty accepted. >> why is it weird. ...