In the wake of the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the West Virginia Coal Association has been hitting the airwaves and taking to print to put the decision into perspective.
WVCA President Bill Raney released an op-ed this week that discusses the decision and refocuses the effort to pass HR 2018 in the U.S. Senate, which would end the EPA’s war on coal once and for all. Raney will also be a guest on WOWK-TV’s “DecisionMakers” this weekend where he will be discussing the same issue.
WVCA Vice President Jason Bostic will be on WV Radio’s WCHS 580 weekly radio show, “Business Matters” on Saturday morning discussing this decision and other EPA actions.
Excerpts from the op-ed and a news release issued on the decision have been picked up in various newspapers around the state and the region. And a new radio spot will begin airing next week on WV Radio Network channels discussing the decision and the need to pass HR 2018 in the Senate.
“This decision, while it is clearly important in and of itself, must be seen as reinforcing the need to pass HR 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, and expanding on it to end this radicalized EPA’s assault on the mining industry – on ALL industry – to an end,” said Raney. “America needs jobs. We need to be creating new jobs and not destroying the ones we have in some myopic pursuit of a political agenda.”