Miners Turn on Manchin, a Fossil Fuel-Loving Dinosaur

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Miners Turn on Manchin, a Fossil Fuel-Loving Dinosaur

Can you teach an old dinosaur new tricks? West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's resistance to Build Back Better has so far deprived the United States of the bill’s much-needed climate and financial benefits.

But now, West Virginians are swinging into action. United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) released a statement listing a whole variety of reasons they support Build Back Better and urging Manchin to vote in support of the bill.

Build Back Better aligns with the UMWA's very own Principles for Energy Transition, will help fund benefits for victims of coal workers' pneumoconiosis and help employ coal miners who have lost their jobs. It will also financially penalize anti-union employers.

More Perfect Union: Coal Miners Tell Manchin To Pass Build Back Better, February 14, 2022.

BlueGreen Alliance: West Virginians Want Senator Manchin to Come Back to the Table and Pass a Budget Reconciliation Bill, March 8, 2022.

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Charting a Path for Just Transitions, March 10, 2021

About Alexandra Bowman

Alexandra Bowman is World War Zero's cartoonist in residence. She is a political cartoonist and satirist, creating work with The Lincoln Project and environmental newsletter Our Daily Planet. Bowman's illustrations have been published by BBC News, BBC Books, Puffin Books, the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, the National Wildlife Federation, and Penguin Random House UK. As a rising senior at Georgetown University, she is double majoring in English and Art and will be graduating early with a Master's in English in May 2023. Bowman also founded The Hilltop Show, a political comedy webseries run by over 50 undergraduate and graduate student members from around the world, and serves as its host and Lead Satirical Writer.