Posted on 08/10/2013 8:11:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Coal industry lobbyists and politicians have been urging the Obama administration to ease up on its regulatory agenda and craft carbon dioxide emission rules that would allow the coal industry to survive.
All the while, reports indicate that hundreds of coal plants are slated to be shut down in the coming years.
The unveiling of President Obama’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants earlier this summer stoked the fears of coal supporters who have already been hit hard by stricter environmental regulations.
However, the industry is not going down without a fight.
Coal lobbyists met with White House officials at the end of July, the Hill newspaper reports, to ask the administration to consider a plan that would allow new coal plants to be built.
Earlier this year the Obama administration put forward rules that would have effectively banned building new coal plants, unless they utilized carbon capture technology.
“In Kentucky, coal is not just an energy source, it’s a way of life,” reads a letter from 50 Kentucky Republican and Democratic state legislators, urging Obama to reconsider new rules for carbon emissions limits. “In Kentucky alone, the loss would measure in the billions of dollars — both from declines in the industry and what are predicted to be steep increases in energy costs.”
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No use. Dear Leader has his agenda to destroy America.
Just ignore Obama in mass.
0bamaD0ntCare.
A smart pol would campaign hard on reopening them all.
Didn’t most of the coal industry vote for this idiot?
His jackboot is on their necks.
I hope they close them all. Most of these soon to be jobless idiots belonged to Unions and voted for the Obama man.
What a thrill it must give him to have people beg for his mercy.
I’m sure there’s nothing else like it in all the world.
Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
I think so.
It’s unfortunate that some people cannot learn through reason, but have to learn hard, very hard.
Perhaps the miners should have considered the outside possibility he was not lying when he promised to shut down all coal before they endorsed him. Just a thought.
Joe Manchin : “Oh, crap. That’s my cue to say something... ummmmm.... coal is... good. Obama, please stop closing plants? Did I do good, Harry?”
One thing actually. Knowing you have integrity. But he’d never try that.
How did the parts of KY who are being affected by this vote in the last Presidential Election?
Obammjy gets off on people begging.......so get up off your knees and kick his ass instead!
Obama was pretty clear on what he had in store for coal, what did those people expect?
And be called bad names by the media? You presuppose America has enough Americans left in it to do that. Personally I don’t think it does.
Actually on our necks. What will happen when all those coal companies shut down - electricity for all those people. This guy is a disaster to America. All he does is give speeches, play golf and go on expensive vacations at the public trough.
Traitors will not Impeach one of their own.
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