The rulemaking from OSM that is the subject of the hearing today is particularly offensive.
We seek not a subsidy or handout. We just need the permission to work.
The thousands of coal miners in West Virginia, Appalachia and across this nation desperately need your help.
I have personally witnessed the social and economic disruptions that occur when unelected bureaucrats make arbitrary decisions.
Families suffered and disintegrated. . .substance abuse and divorces skyrocketed.
The results were devastating. Some 400 members of Local Union 2935 were out of a job.
You either believe in science or you choose to put your head in the sand and revert back to the dark ages.
Washington D.C.'s assault on the coal industry has real, often dramatic effects on our workforce, our people, our schools.
If finalized, the rule will throw the nation into an energy crisis the likes of which it has never seen.
This proposal from OSM is but one part of an 'open war' on American coal being waged by bureaucrats in Washington, Pittsburgh and Philadelph...
OSM would drastically reduce coal production in West Virginia and across the nation by applying new standards that have no basis in the law.
Unless restrained by Congress, OSM will destroy the economies of states that produce coal and propel thousands of coal miners on the jobless...
This proposal from OSM is but one part of an open war on American coal being waged by bureaucrats in Washington, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia...
We're all in on this one. It doesn't have a party here. This is the most bipartisan approach I think you can take.
It is totally unreasonable. The aggressive approach they're taking, it makes no sense at all when we're in such dire need of the energy that...
The economy would go to 'you-know-what' in a handbasket and we'd be in serious trouble.
I think there's a better way that we could save some of those plants, giving dependable, reliable and affordable energy.
I call on you to restore balance in the federal government--to reign in the out-of-control EPA and OSM.
