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January 20, 2011

EPA’s assault on America’s coal industry drawing attention from more and more people.  The RedState.com blog has begun keeping a diary of events in the EPA’s effort to shut down American industry.

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January 20, 2011

House Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) plans to take dead aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change regulations this year.

“We believe it critical that the Obama administration ‘stop’ imposing its new global warming regulatory regime, which will undermine economic growth and U.S. competitiveness for no significant benefit,” says the document, which lays out a suite of “key issues” that will come before the committee.

While the individual items included in the document are not surprising, the agenda, taken as a whole, illustrates the breadth of GOP opposition to the White House energy and environment agenda.

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January 20, 2011

The Friends of Coal would like to thank the more than 1,000 coal miners, their families and supporters who gathered at the State Capitol Thursday in a peaceful protest of the Obama Administration and its EPA's ongoing assault against Appalachian coal.

The rally was called by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin in the wake of last week's veto by the EPA of a three-year old permit issued for Mingo-Logan's Spruce #1 surface mine in Logan County.

Tomblin was joined by Senator Joe Manchin, representatives of the state's congressional delegation and legislative leaders of both parties for the rally.

Tomblin pledged his administration will continue the state's efforts to fight the EPA's assault on the state's coal industry. Manchin told the crowd his first legislation as senator will be aimed at reining in the job-killing policies of the EPA.

The Friends of Coal would like to thank Governor Tomblin, Senator Manchin, Acting Senate President Jeff Kessler, Speaker of the House Richard Thompson and the hundreds of miners, their families and our friends who turned out to show their support of our state's primary industry.

We would also like to thank our numerous member companies who participated, as well as FACES, Citizens for Coal, the Logan Coal Vendors, the Coal Forum, the Mountaintop Mining Coalition, the Kentucky Coal Association and all the others who joined with us in making our voices heard.  We are making a difference in this effort to save coal mining jobs.

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January 20, 2011

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Dear Fox News,

I am highly disappointed in your news coverage on the evening of January 17, by Shepard Smith.  I have never heard such bias and ignorance, reported in such a scathing tone by your news organization about the coal industry and the revocation by the EPA of this mining permit in West Virginia .  My family and I have long been proponents of your news coverage and I have to say, you are “just plain dumb” as to the aesthetics of this topic and industry.  The news media and the rest of the country, so like to portray the people of Appalachia in this manner, so maybe the tables have turned.  We have lived in this great state, (one of the few in this country that is not financially in trouble) for the last 19 years.  I am an accountant, bookkeeper and real estate agent and self-employed business woman who is married to, yes, the coal industry. It is my heritage and our way of life.  My husband is a Professional Engineer with 28 years of mining experience and two engineering degrees from the University of Kentucky , and contrary to public perception, this industry has more great minds and degrees than your whole organization put together.

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January 17, 2011

It’s not every day that egg farmers and cattlemen rise to the defense of a mountain-top coal mine in West Virginia. But that’s what appears to be happening as the Obama administration nears a decision on the fate of the mine.

Nearly two dozen industry groups – including the National Realtors Association, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and, yes, the United Egg Producers – are urging the White House to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from yanking a water permit for a mountaintop-removal coal mining project in Logan County, West Virginia that would be one of the largest in Appalachia.

Why do those industries care about Arch Coal Inc.’s Spruce No. 1 mine? Because, like coal producers, their businesses require federal water permits.

If EPA pulls the permit, it would mark the first time in the agency’s 40-year history that it canceled a water permit after it was issued – a scary precedent in the groups’ eyes.

“The implications could be staggering, reaching all areas of the U.S. economy including but not limited to the agriculture, home building, mining, transportation and energy sectors,” the groups say in a letter dated Tuesday to Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The letter notes that clean-water permits such as the one issued to Arch by the Army Corps of Engineers support roughly $220 billion in economic activity each year.

“If EPA is allowed to revoke this permit, every similarly valid … permit held by any entity — businesses, public works agencies and individual citizens — will be in increased regulatory limbo and potentially subject to the same unilateral, after-the-fact revocation,” the groups say in their letter.