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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) blasted President Obama's proposals to address climate change, saying new regulations on power plants would unfairly burden the coal industry. “The regulations the President wants to force on coal are not feasible. And if it’s not feasible, it’s not reasonable,” Manchin said in a statement. “It’s clear now that the President has declared a war on coal,” he added. “It’s simply unacceptable that one of the key elements of his climate change proposal places regulations on coal that are completely impossible to meet with existing technology." The Democratic senator’s comments highlight the tough — and bipartisan...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: There are a couple of polls out here today, and they greatly conflict with each other. They are about Obama's approval numbers. Now, the first poll is from Reuters. It's a Reuters/Ipsos poll, and according to this poll, approval for Obama has crashed. He's down to 43% approval in the Reuters poll. The other poll that's out is from Rasmussen. The Rasmussen poll has Obama's approval at above 50%. Now, there was another poll. It was Gallup earlier this week that had Obama's approval number at 48%. It was the first time he was under 50% in...