Congress can ‘forget’ about a carbon penalty with 50-50 Senate split, says Manchin

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The 117th Congress will not enact a price on carbon and should insteadfocus on promoting cleaner energy technologies’ development,according to Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat-West Virginia.“If they want to have a conversation [on] how we improve ourclimate and do it in a most responsible way, they’d have me, in aheartbeat,” Manchin said during a Feb. 4 livestreamed discussion withthe Bipartisan Policy Center. “They want to talk about this as apenalty? Forget it - as long as I’m here and there’s 50 votes so ittakes 51 to pass it.”