The Unemployment Rate Is Above 9 Percent And The Obama Administration Is Eliminating Jobs

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Yahoo News posted an Associated Press story yesterday about the new regulations the Obama Administration is placing on the coal industry.  According to the administration's own experts, the new rules will cost thousands of jobs and slash production across the country.

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is replacing the Bush-era rules which set up buffer zones around streams and were aimed mainly at mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. 

The article reports:

""Neither the environmental impact statement nor the administrative record that OSM has developed over 30-plus year of regulation ... justify the sweeping changes that they're proposing to make," West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection official Thomas Clarke told the Associated Press on Wednesday. "I've had OSM technical people who are concerned with stream impacts and outside contractors for OSM who are subcontractors on the EIS give me their opinion that the whole thing's a bunch of junk.""

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, has said that he will do everything he can to block these new regulations.

The article reports:

"Manchin already plans to introduce legislation to curb the powers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which recently vetoed a permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had long ago issued for Arch Coal's Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County."

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.  To shut down or increase restrictions on the coal industry is not a wise move for the American economy, particularly during a recession.   This is another example of the government picking economic winners and losers--which is not the job of the government.

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