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"The rewritten stream buffer zone rule will result in the direct loss of over 7,000 jobs nationwide."
"Science should be employed as a tool to guide public policy."
"The 2008 stream buffer zone rule employed science to guide public policy."
"I look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses."
"I would like to reaffirm my belief that the United States is a nation of excellence."
"Increasing responsible access to these resources will allow us to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy."
"Some have said, and I happen to share this concern, so I could be saying this just as well as anyone else out there, that the Obama Administration seems to be waging a war on coal."
"We are hopeful, now that OSM has retained a new contractor and pressed the pause button on the EIS process, that it will comply with its obligations under NEPA and conduct a genuine EIS process where ..."
"Can a state even give an adequate response in five or ten days? I find that when I send something to a state, or even worse, maybe a Federal bureaucracy, it takes them that long to open the envelope a..."
"Well, I find that really ironic because SMCRA is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Surface mining control, so ostensibly, it's not supposed to dictate underground mining, if I heard you ..."
"What we've seen from EPA, what we've seen from the other agencies within the Federal Government has been policy and it's going to trample, we think, congressional intent, whether it's under the Surfac..."