David McKinley actually said...

I am asking that you don't allow the EPA to destroy the industry that provides us the revenue to get to that next level.

Coal mining--particularly surface mining such as proposed at Spruce--can provide us jobs today and possibilities for tomorrow.

Unfortunately, we've been here before--in 1999 a federal Judge halted mining at the Dal-Tex site where the Spruce permit is located.

I am one of maybe three or four people in Congress that have a construction background, and I have dealt with permitting agencies for 40 som...