Coal Miner: 'You Say You're The President Of The People? Well We're People Too'
The Senate Will Vote To Block 'Obama Administration's Rules' Assaulting Coal Families
"The Senate will vote as early as this week to block President Obama's climate change rules for power plants." ("Senate Tees Up Votes Against Obama's Climate Rules," The Hill, 11/17/15)
· "'The administration bypassed Congress entirely when it developed this rule, and these resolutions of disapproval will give senators an opportunity to approve or disapprove of these far-reaching regulations,' Sen. Shelley Moore Capito…" ("Senate Tees Up Votes Against Obama's Climate Rules," The Hill, 11/17/15)
· "The legislation only requires a simple majority vote, which would fulfill one of McConnell's top priorities and promised to his constituents: to block the rules, which are due to hit the coal industry especially hard." ("Senate Tees Up Votes Against Obama's Climate Rules," The Hill, 11/17/15)
"Both chambers of Congress this week are set to join the avalanche of attacks on the Obama administration's rules limiting emissions from the power sector." ("Republicans Attack Climate Rules To Send Message To UN," National Journal, 10/26/15)
REAL IMPACT: 'Come And Look At Our Little Children, Look At Our People, Mr. President,' 'We're Hurting'
"The rule, finalized in August, is the centerpiece of Obama's climate agenda — but its sweeping scope and strict standards make it an especially contentious regulation." ("Wave Of Litigation Hits Obama Climate Rule," The Hill, 10/24/15)
THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 'As many as 224,000 jobs would be eliminated' "The country's largest business lobby warned Wednesday that the Obama administration's proposal to impose new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could eclipse $50 billion in annual costs through 2030. … The Chamber's study says as many as 224,000 jobs would be eliminated annually through 2030 under the proposal." ("Chamber: Costs Of EPA Climate Rule Could Top $50 Billion A Year," The Hill, 5/28/14)
"…in coal country, the changes have meant layoffs. Nowhere has been hit harder than eastern Kentucky, where more than 6,000 miners have lost their jobs since January 2012. For each mining job, there are estimated to be at least three directly related jobs, like trucking, that also disappear." (Fox News, 1/16/14)
· "According to [Bill] Bissett, [the president of the Kentucky Coal Association] the coal industry has lost more than 6,000 direct jobs, and 18,000 people indirectly connected to the coal industry are out of work. Coal production in Eastern Kentucky is down 30 percent..." (Commonwealth Journal [KY], 1/7/14)
GARY LOCKHART, Coal Miner: "Our biggest worries now are just trying to keep a roof over our heads, food on the table, telling your family that this was all caused by the EPA, directed by our President for his political agenda." (Coal Listening Session, Kentucky, 12/6/13)
PHILLIP CONLEY, Coal Miner: "I just believe the Obama administration has taken a huge impact on the coal industry and Appalachia. Anymore, you just never know from day to day if you are going to have a job or not." (Fox News, 1/16/14)
HOWARD ABSHIRE, Coal Miner: "I say to you, Mister President of the United States… We're hurting. You say you're the president of the people? Well we're people too. No one loves the mountains no more than we do. We live here. We crawl between them. We get up every morning and we go on top of a mountain in a strip job in the cold rain, snow, to put bread on the table." (Coal Listening Session, Kentucky, 12/6/13)
· ABSHIRE: "Come and look at our little children, look at our people, Mr. President. You're not hurting for a job; you've got one. I don't have one." (Coal Listening Session, Kentucky, 12/6/13)
JUSTINE BRADFORD, Teacher: "Dear EPA: Will you please tell Santa Claus all we want for Christmas this year is to be able to work. Here in Eastern Kentucky we too are real people." (Coal Listening Session, Kentucky, 12/6/13)
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: 'A War On Coal Is Exactly What's Needed,' 'Make Examples Out Of People'
"…Obama's new rules are absolutely changing the trajectory of the power industry. He has been an ally in the war on coal …" ("Obama's Ozone Lesson," Politico, 10/15)
DANIEL P. SCHRAG, White House Climate Adviser: 'A war on coal is exactly what's needed' "The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. …a war on coal is exactly what's needed." (The New York Times, 6/25/13)
OBAMA EPA Official: 'Make examples out of people,' 'Crucify them' "The Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish (sic) town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years. And so you make examples out of people..." ("EPA Official Not Only Touted 'Crucifying' Oil Companies, He Tried It," Forbes, 4/26/12)
THEN-SEN. BARACK OBAMA: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, even, you know, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers." (The San Francisco Chronicle, 1/17/08)
· OBAMA: "So if somebody wants to build a coal fired plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that is being emitted." (The San Francisco Chronicle, 1/17/08)
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