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Senate Study Reports Jobs and Economic Security Under Assault by EPA
May 21, 2010Today the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a report outlining the adverse economic and employment impacts of the EPA's inability to approve or set discernable standards for the approval of coal mining permits in Appalachia. The states that will be economically hardest hit by this virtual moratorium on permitting are West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama. The minority staff report was released by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who is the ranking member of the Committee. "The EPA is making clear its intentions to destroy jobs and economic security in West Virginia and throughout Appalachia," said Bryan Brown, state coordinator of West Virginia FACES of Coal. "The Senate report acknowledges the job destruction and economic peril EPA's actions are having on this region. We urge our elected leaders in Washington to continue their efforts to secure coal jobs and our economic future." Full release.
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