Senator Inhofe’s Congressional Review Act (CRA) is expected to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote on Tuesday of next week, June 12th. It will nullify EPA’s utility MACT rule that has been debilitating to coal and utility industries. This CRA is in the form of Senate Joint Resolution 37 and will need a simple majority of 51 votes for approval. We need to do everything possible to convince Senators Rockefeller and Manchin to support this resolution. Anyone who has not sent a message to our Senators is asked to go to our webpage, www.wvcoal.com, and send a message (per instructions below) by Monday. We need to get as many messages of support as possible to the Senators. Thanks.
We need your HELP! IMMEDIATELY!
Please ask Senators Rockefeller and Manchin for their HELPin (1) controlling EPA and, (2) HELPING to protect our jobs, our way of life and our future. Ask them to HELP with:
· (SJR 37) Senate Joint Resolution 37 that will be considered by the full Senate on June 12. This Resolution will STOP one of EPA’s most damaging rulemakings ever imposed on American coal-burning power plants. It is called the “Utility MACT” rule (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) and has prompted the premature closing of a number of coal-fired power plants across the country, including several in West Virginia. If it is not stopped it is projected to cost tens of thousands of jobs and increase our electric bills by as much as 25 percent -- to rates that our seniors and those on fixed income can't afford. SJR 37 will STOP EPA from implementing this rule and force them to obtain Congressional approval before any other newly proposed rule can be put into effect. A simple majority of 51 Senators is needed to pass this Resolution. We need both of our Senators to support this important Resolution.
You can send your messages by following these quick and simple steps.
· Go to our webpage by clicking here and send them the email message pertaining to the Congressional Review Act, SJR 37.
· You will need to simply enter your name and address and the message will go directly to the Senators’ offices.
Please have all your employees send a message and encourage them to have members of their family also send messages.
Thanks for your HELP.
A broad cross-section of the business community and our State Legislators are also sending letters to the Senators, along with one from the UMWA that was sent to all Senators. When combined with the statements at Saturday’s rally, many voices are speaking as ONE to solicit support for this critical resolution.