House Passes Legislation to Protect Mining Jobs and End Obama Secret Science

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the House of Representatives this week passed legislation of which he is a cosponsor, H.R. 1644, the Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining Act (STREAM Act), by a vote of 235-188:

"This important legislation will save mining jobs throughout the country and put an end to the Obama Administration's secret science justification for the president's war on coal. Obama's continued efforts to implement his ideologically-driven coal regulations will kill hundreds of thousands of jobs and take billions of dollars out of the pockets of hard-working Americans. This administration continues to churn out an onslaught of top-down, duplicative mandates that will wreak havoc on our economy.

"Even more troubling, deception and a lack of transparency are being utilized to implement this misguided new regulation. Shamefully, states─which have traditionally had primary jurisdiction on these matters regulating 97% of the nation's coal mines─were not consulted in this process. To make matters worse, information leaked in 2011 when the agency was crafting this new mandate indicated the agency was trying to cover up job losses that would be associated with this new rule. The agency has even changed the technical name of this proposal in an attempt to further pull the wool over the American public's eyes. Ultimately, Obama's attempts to put more coal companies out of business will only increase our electricity prices and put more of our family members and friends out of work, while failing to yield any discernible difference for the global environment."

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