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Ironically, some of the first impacted by the President's Clean Power Plan are those who can least afford it where poverty is rampant in places like the Crow Tribe, in places like West Virginia.

If they lose these jobs, the unemployment rate is going to go from about 45 percent to north of 80 percent because they mine coal on the Crow Reservation.

He is a great West Virginian with three sons, and he is also a colonel who serves in the West Virginia National Guard.

As we're seeing the industry today, coal companies are not too big to fail.

I want to emphasize that the Stream Protection Rule is important for the entire nation.

The Stream Protection Rule is first and foremost about water quality.

In my view, without the Stream Protection Rule, we would be allowing the coal industry to continue business as usual.

It is hard not to believe there has not been a war on coal.

I think you have got a problem. It could be over funding. It could be maybe incompetency perhaps in taking this out.

I am concerned about this time. This was passed in '12 and it is 3 years later and you are saying it may not be finished for two more years.

It is clear that the current situation is not acceptable.

We got to have more money at the other end.

The State revolving fund has been used as a pawn and I know in 2013 the president in his budget slashed almost 50 percent out of the money, out of the SRO.

I applaud this effort to try to get more technical assistance but I am--but I am wondering if we are chasing the wrong rabbit.

There are none in America operating commercially, is that correct?

Is Mildred Schmidt going to have to pay more for her electricity?

This find is very unusual, this Marcellus shale and the Utica shale and now we have Rogersville and all this coming on in our little state of West Virginia.

It is really disturbing. Our state is really getting plummeted by this, and it is just ridiculous.