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WATCH: Activists criticizing Sen. Joe Manchin arrested after protesting outside power plant
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Several activists were arrested over the weekend after blocking an entrance to a power plant in an effort to call attention to Sen. Joe Manchin's ties to the coal industry.
A West Virginia University student activist, Ryley Haught, told Fox News: "Manchin profits 500,000 a year from the trucks that bring in that coal, and at the same time he serves as the chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. This is a huge conflict of interest."
A company Manchin co-founded with his brother paid the West Virginia Democrat nearly $492,000 in 2020, his financial disclosures show. The company, Enersystems Inc., is run by Manchin's son and sells waste coal to the Grant Town Power Plant, The New York Times reported.
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