By Brandon Gage President Joe Biden’s goals to tackle climate change were shattered this week when United States Senator Joe Manchin, the conservative Democratic West Virginia coal baron, announced that he would not support Biden’s proposed initiatives. Manchin’s colleagues had hoped that he would agree to something – even modest policies that aimed to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, lower greenhouse gas emissions, invest in renewable sources of energy, or enhance environmental protections. Manchin’s intimate ties to the declining coal industry – from which he personally rakes in millions o…