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Droughts and almost every county in west virginia has seen massive flooding. >> but it's very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, we've 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 says breaking through the complexity of the issue feels impossible. >> climate change is so complicat...

Change, you can't blame every undesirable weather event on west virginia coal. we don't have serious droughts here. we don't 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 it's very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, we've cleaned up every airborne constituent. >> reporter: senator manchin echoed this monday. >> we have basically cleaned up the environment more than any other time in the ...

>> but it's very, very difficult to blame that on coal because, again, we've 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 complicated here in west virginia because west virginians perceive it as a direct attack on their livel...

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 we're contributing towards climate change, but you can't blame every undesierable weathe event on west virginia coal. we don't have serious droughts here or serious fires. >> reporter: you do. >> we have a little bit of flooding. >> reporter: the governor ordered a state of emergen...

We don't have serious droughts here. we don't 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 it's 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 up the environment more than any other time in the history of this world. >> reporter: west virg...