Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today welcomed letters from the President of the United Mine Workers of America Cecil Roberts and from Democrat West Virginia Governor Earl Tomblin in support of his resolution (SJR37) to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Utility MACT rule.
As Cecil Roberts stated in a letter addressed to several Senators, the United Mine Workers’ “support for SJR 37 is based upon our assessment of the threat that the EPA MATS rule poses to UMWA members’ jobs, the economies of coal field communities, and the future direction of our national energy policy.”
Likewise, Governor Tomblin’s letter asks Senators John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to support SJR37 because EPA’s “attack will have disastrous consequences on West Virginia’s economy, our citizens, and our way of life” and that EPA “continues on this ill-conceived path to end the development of our nation’s most reliable, cost-effective source of energy-coal.”
