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Since the official launch of our online tool to have comments submitted against EPA’s proposed existing source performance standards this past week, more than 4,700 people have signed the petition. The tool has already almost doubled the total number of signatures collected during the month we used it to collect comments for the new plant source performance standards. With almost two months to go during the comment period, we hope to collect 10,000 signatures.
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The August edition of The Coal Seam television show is now on the air. This edition features a conversation with WV Coal Association President Bill Raney and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman.
Raney provides a brief outline of the current state of the industry in terms of production, employment and severance tax as well as a preview of the July 30 Coal Rally in Pittsburgh. The show was taped prior to the rally.
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The 2014 edition of Coal Facts is now available. Published as an insert in this week’s edition of The State Journal, Coal Facts 2014 features final production, employment, severance and other data for calendar year 2013 as well as commentary from West Virginia Coal Association President Bill Raney, Senior VP Chris Hamilton and VP Jason Bostic.
We urge you to pick up a copy of this week’s State Journal. Limited copies are also available at the Association offices in Charleston. A digital copy will be made available for download on our www.wvcoal.com website within the next week.
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On August 1, 2014, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced that his office filed a new lawsuit on behalf of West Virginia and 11 other states against the federal Environmental Protection Agency challenging the agency’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal fired power plants. The new suit challenges the legality of the 2011 settlement agreement signed by EPA where it committed to regulate existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the federal Clean Air Act. Underlying the lawsuit is EPA’s regulation of coal fired power plants under a different section of the law and the federal CAA prohibits “double regulation” using two separate sections of the statute. A copy of the suit is available from
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Governor Earl Ray Tomblin joined West Virginia miners, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, Ohio Lt. Governor Mary Taylor and others at the July 31st Rally to Support American Energy jobs. The rally was held in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing for the proposed Clean Power Plan rule which were being held in Pittsburgh Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1.
Four buses from West Virginia joined others from Ohio and Pennsylvania to transport people to the rally as well. Those in attendance included: Logan Mayor Serafino Nolletti, Man Mayor Jim Blevins, Senator Art Kirkendoll, Senator Ron Stollings, Delegate Rupie Phillips, members of Citizens for Coal and many more.
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We would like to welcome the following new members who were approved at the Board of Director’s meeting last weekend at The Greenbrier Annual Meeting.
General (Producing) Member: Contour Highwall Mining, LLC, Summersville, WV, represented by David Bundy.
Associate Members: Cook Consulting Services LLC, Charleston, WV, represented by Larry Cook; Due South Investments LLC, Macon, GA, represented by Andy Barrs; and, Ohio Valley Trackwork, Inc., Bidwell, OH, represented by Jim Whittington.
We welcome and appreciate these new members’ support and confidence and we look forward to a long and active relationship as we aggressively pursue the challenges facing our industry.
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According to those who attended, the 2014 Annual Meeting of the WV Coal Association was another success, as some were quoted as saying the programs had “the best line-up of speakers ever”. The Membership Meeting on Friday morning had WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Office of Miner’s Health, Safety & Training Director Eugene White and WV State Senator Art Kirkendoll, who is Vice-Chairman of the Senate’s Energy, Industry & Mining Committee.
Saturday morning’s speakers included Tony Alexander, First Energy’s President & CEO, Gene Trisko with ACCCE, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, who drove all night in order to make this function, WV State Senate President/Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kessler and political analyst Jeff Longstreth with JPL & Associates.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will host public hearings on its new carbon regulations in Pittsburgh on July 31 and August 1. We’ve already paid the price for EPA’s costly and politicized rulemaking, and the agency’s newest regulations could be the most devastating yet.
Come join coal communities from across the Tri-State area and special guests, including Governors Corbett and Tomblin, for a fun-filled, family friendly rally and learn how you can get involved and take action. Let’s show EPA our support for coal!
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Jack Owens and his "Days of Gold" Tour with Kellie Pickler will headline this year's Friends of Coal Auto Fair, which is set for July 18th-20th at the Paul Cline Memorial Sports Complex in Beckley. The Fair will again feature the car show, carnival rides, food, vendors, live music, special performance and surprise guests with upwards of 50,000 people from all over the country attending. Visit the website: www.friendsofcoalautofair.com for ticket, sponsorship, schedule and general information on this three-day weekend event.
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