Former state Sen. John Pippy, the CEO of the PA Coal Alliance, denounced the President’s plan.
“There are tens of thousands of good-paying jobs at stake here. We’re talking about shutting down plants and generating capacity at a time when many parts of the electric grid are stressed and vulnerable. We’re talking about increasing the price of electricity for businesses and individuals,” he said.
So did Gov. Tom Corbett.
“Here in Pennsylvania, nearly 63,000 men and women, including 8,100 miners, work in jobs supported by the coal industry,” he said. “This proposal is not only a war on coal, as suggested by a White House climate adviser, but also a war on jobs.”
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Allegheny), the House Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight Committee, also slammed the President’s new policies.
“This Administration has already closed one-fifth of US coal-fueled plants in the last four years and has made no secret about its anti-coal agenda,” he said, “with a top Obama science advisor quoted that ‘a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.’”
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