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.

URL:

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Procinct.net: <http://procinct.net/index.php/category/election-integrity-2/>  LadyImpactOhio

The West Virginia Business & Industry Council (BIC), an organization representing more than 250,000 West Virginia employees across 26 separate industry categories, calls upon the West Virginia Legislature to enact legislation establishing a Primary Election to nominate candidates for the mandated Special Election for governor.

Jan Vineyard, chairman of BIC, said, “Every West Virginian deserves the right to cast a vote for their choice for Governor.  While we respect the Supreme Court’s decision, we believe there needs to be a Primary Election, as opposed to the Convention system referenced in the Court’s ruling.”

For additional information, contact Jan Vineyard at (304) 343-5500, or visit the BIC website at www.wvbic.org <http://www.wvbic.org/> .

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.

The West Virginia State Senate passed, Thursday, a resolution calling on the U.S. EPA to reconsider its veto of the Mingo-Logan Spruce #1 Mine in Logan County.  EPA announced its retroactive veto of the permit, a permit granted almost four years ago, earlier this week.  Senate and House leaders of both parties joined with Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Senator Joe Manchin at the Capitol Coal Rally Thursday afternoon.

Full text of the Resolution follows:

SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 10

(By Senators Kessler (Acting President), Green, Unger, Browning, McCabe, Stollings, Sypolt, Plymale, K. Facemyer, Williams, Minard, Hall, Laird, Jenkins, Boley, Nohe, Yost, Klempa, Wells, Prezioso, Beach, Miller, Palumbo, Snyder, Edgell, D. Facemire and Tucker)

Urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its January 13, 2011, action to veto the permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Spruce Mine in Logan County, West Virginia.

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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.