Environmental activists canceled plans to disrupt the annual Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday after Sen. Joe Manchin III revived a climate spending bill that he previously opposed.
Leaders of the demonstration originally planned for more than 300 activists to engage in acts of civil disobedience at Nationals Park in Washington to call attention to climate change, with some vowing to get arrested.
“Congressional leaders have declared they intend to meet many of our climate and justice demands, so we’ll be attending the game tonight just to urge Congress to seal the deal and to ask Joe Biden to still declare a climate emergency,” Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, said in a statement to The Washington Times.