Senator Manchin Vows to Block All EPA Nominees.

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has announced that he will oppose all nominees for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posts until President Joe Biden's administration halts what he described as its "radical climate agenda." Manchin's ultimatum comes ahead of the EPA's planned roll-out of its new carbon emission standards for new and existing power plants, which he worries could cripple coal- and gas-fired power plants. The agency is expected to unveil power plant emission performance standards that will lean heavily on the deployment of carbon capture or hydrogen technology to clean up the electric sector, which accounts for a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.