"The Administration's efforts were a rush job done solely to placate their environmental allies."
"OSM's stream buffer zone rule is the most comprehensive, far-reaching revision of SMCRA rule in over 30 years."
"When an agency ignores the previous open rulemaking process of its past... then one can only conclude that this proposal was intentional."
"There's a right way to conduct rulemaking, as Congressman Johnson pointed out in his opening remarks."
"Ohio alone will lose 53,000 jobs, and electricity prices could certainly spur and hurt the middle and lower class Americans."
"This administration proposes to sacrifice these 33,000 primary and secondary jobs that we create, and that is as simple as it gets."
"I would agree with her analysis of how that would affect the power-producing facilities."
"According to the NERA study, it alone, that loss of those jobs just because of those two proposals, would be 53,000 direct jobs in the State."
"I don't think there is any doubt that we are seeing in the coal fields of not just Ohio, but I think West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, you are seeing a coordinated attack because the ne..."
"The effects the EPA's pending and planned proposals will have on electricity prices, employers, domestic workers will be devastating."
"We believe that the Kerry-Boxer bill will kill our jobs, devastate our communities, and bankrupt our region, and consequently threaten the rest of this Nation."