Radical-left climate protesters from the Climate Defiance organization shouted down Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a diner on Tuesday in New Hampshire.
The Washington, D.C.-based group has a history of interrupting events and targeting politicians over climate policy issues. In a video posted to the activists’ X, formerly Twitter, account, protesters could be heard yelling, “Off fossil fuels, Manchin, off fossil fuels.”
“The single-largest recipient of oil and gas money, Manchin, blowtorches our planet and gloats,” the organization wrote on X. “He chairs the Senate Energy Committee, and uses this role to protect his personal coal company. He earns more income from this coal company than he does from his senate salary. It shows.”
Manchin managed to exit the restaurant through the kitchen after being surrounded by the group, disrupting what looked like a small speaking engagement, according to the video.
The video showed one activist running in front of Manchin’s car, holding a sign as he attempted to drive off.
“Big update. Big, big update. We just found Joe Manchin yet again, in a diner,” Climate Defiance said in the post. “We swarmed it. We took it over. We seized control. We shut him down so hard he had to flee through the kitchen. We will not walk like sheep to slaughter. We will not stand down. Respect us or expect us.”
The group began to shout the Democratic senator down after stating that securing the border was a key concern for him, which seemed to provoke their chanting, according to the video.
This is not Manchin’s first encounter with disruptive climate activists; Tuesday’s events follow their first bombardment of Manchin after he addressed the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’s “Politics & Eggs” forum, Fox News reported.
He was also confronted by climate activists in June 2023 at an event where he discussed the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Manchin isn’t alone in his recent targets by climate activists. Gov. Michelle Grisham (D-NM) was the target of climate protesters Tuesday evening during her State of the State address, KOAT Action News reported. Grisham, who was in the middle of discussing her climate goals, was interrupted by activists shouting unintelligible slogans, according to the video reported by the outlet.
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Climate Defiance said their goal is to disrupt events, citing Manchin’s support for fossil fuels, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and his owning a coal company, Fox News reported.
“We are explicitly and unapologetically committed to making life MISERABLE for every person in power who stands between us and the solutions we so desperately need,” Climate Defiance wrote in their post.