Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the latest proposal to protect streams from pollution as a result of mountaintop removal is a threat to Kentucky jobs and families.
The proposed rule, announced by the Interior Department on Thursday, is an update to a 1983, and would require coal companies test and monitor the condition of streams affected by nearby activity, according to a summary from the Interior Department. It would also require companies restore streams to “the uses they were capable of supporting before mining activities.”
“This costly proposed regulation is aimed squarely at the lifeblood of the commonwealth’s economy and the livelihoods of Coal Country workers and their families,” McConnell said. “Taken together with other Washington regulations that are already having a devastating impact, it’s impossible not to conclude that the Obama Administration is engaging in all-out economic warfare on these communities. I will continue to do all I can to fight back against the Obama Administration’s repeated and gratuitous attacks on Kentuckians whose only crime is working hard to maintain a reliable source of energy and provide for their families.”
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