Joe Manchin actually said...

Unless restrained by Congress, OSM will destroy the economies of states that produce coal and propel thousands of coal miners on the jobless...

OSM would drastically reduce coal production in West Virginia and across the nation by applying new standards that have no basis in the law.

This proposal from OSM is but one part of an 'open war' on American coal being waged by bureaucrats in Washington, Pittsburgh and Philadelph...

If finalized, the rule will throw the nation into an energy crisis the likes of which it has never seen.