There isn’t one, of course, which is the point. It’s easy to focus exclusively on Manchin and what he is or isn’t doing, but he’s only one vote. Even Susan Collins appears to be content to turn the planet into a French Fry if it wins the GOP some votes in the near future.
Any failure to approve meaningful climate legislation will damage our reputation with the rest of the world—most notably, with the EU, which at some point is likely to adopt carbon adjustment regulations that will effectively keep American products out of Europe. Are we really willing to injure both our relationship with our allies and our thriving export industries in order to save a relative handful of coal and oil jobs?
Probably.