Mr Americana, Overpasses News Desk
February 2nd, 2017
Overpasses For America
VIA WASHINGTON EXAMINER
One year ago, West Virginia sought divine intervention for an Appalachia coal industry left reeling from downward market forces and heavy federal regulation. Republicans just started answering.
The House deployed the Congressional Review Act to strike down one of the Obama-era’s most controversial regulations, the Stream Protection Rule.
Just before exiting the Oval Office, then-President Barack Obama put the finishing touches on his regulatory legacy by ordering the Dept. of Interior to finalize the rule. On paper, it’s designed to prevent the pollution of waterways near coal mines. In practice, it adds a regulatory burden that the industry insists it can’t shoulder.
It can best be understood as a tripwire left for the GOP. Create a rule you know will be repealed so the GOP gets the bad press of rolling back a coal-in-waterways rule.
The bill’s author, West Virginia Rep. Evan Jenkins, described the legislation as the first step toward repealing “the final component of the last president’s war on coal.” It passed by 228-194 and now heads to the Senate.
President Trump has already promised to end his predecessor’s campaign against coal. When he put on a coal miner’s helmet on the campaign trail in West Virginia, he was anointed by the industry. If the bill reaches his desk now, he’ll become the savior of the much-maligned hydrocarbon.
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The Senate passed a resolution repealing regulations on the coal industry that were issued issued by the Obama administration in its eleventh hour.
The resolution passed, 54-45, one day after the House approved its own resolution of disapproval. The measure now will be sent to President Trump, who is expected to sign it. The resolution helps to fulfill part of Trump’s pledge to help coal miners get out from under the weight of increased regulation on their industry.
In killing the Environmental Protection Agency’s last-minute Stream Protection Rule, the Republican leadership called it a rushed regulation that blindsided states with unnecessary and burdensome rules for coal mining.
Most Democrats opposed the resolution as a step backward for the environment, with Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the top Democrat on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, leading the charge during the debate Thursday morning.
The resolution of disapproval allows Congress to repeal regulations under the Congressional Review Act using a simple majority vote.
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