100PercentFedUp.com
By Heather Allen
On Friday, Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of W.Va. announced that he would not be advancing Biden’s Department of Interior (DOI) nominee. Sen. Manchin, who is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced he would block Laura Daniel-Davis from moving forward due to her climate activism.
Manchin noted that his decision, which kills Biden’s nomination of having Daniel-Davis serve as the DOI assistant secretary for land and minerals management, came in response to a memo that was leaked last week. The memo showed that Daniel-Davis, who currently holds a lower DOI position, has made previous decisions that show she is more concerned with climate policy than energy security.
Manchin wrote his opinion for the Houston Chronicle, saying Daniels-Davis was making decisions that put the country’s energy security at risk and were keeping him from being able to support her nomination,
“Today, I have also decided, as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, that I will not be moving forward with the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis as assistant secretary of the Department of Interior. Daniel-Davis approved higher royalty rates for the Alaskan Cook Inlet sale, which were explicitly designed to decrease fossil energy production at the expense of our energy security,” he added, “Even though I supported her in the past, I cannot, in good conscience, support her or anyone else who will play partisan politics and agree with this misguided and dangerous manipulation of the law.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (100percentfedup.com)
Home | Caravan to Midnight (zutalk.com)
[metaslider id=18634