The answer to your last question is basically “red state politicians are deep in the pockets of coal and oil interests”.
It’s not exclusively a GOP thing, Manchin is theoretically a D but he sure is holding back a lot of stuff in the Senate due to him being massively invested in dirty energy, but it’s more a Repub thing than a Dem thing.
It’s not exclusively a GOP thing, Manchin is theoretically a D but he sure is holding back a lot of stuff in the Senate due to him being massively invested in dirty energy, but it’s more a Repub thing than a Dem thing.