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War on coal casualties

Great job asshats....now give yourselves a nice hefty fine so us tax payers can foot the bill.
 
Coal company to pay $5,000 fine for 'fire Obama' signs

A major coal mining company has agreed to pay $5,000 to settle charges that it violated election spending rules by distributing anti-President Obama signs in 2012.

In a settlement announced Friday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Murray Energy Corp. admitted that it failed to disclose paying for signs that read “STOP the WAR on COAL — FIRE OBAMA” in the months before the 2012 presidential election.

Following a complaint by a liberal group in Ohio, FEC investigated the signs, for which Murray paid about $22,000.

The agency found that the signs are not expressly prohibited under current campaign finance law, but Murray should have disclosed on the signs themselves who paid for them, and filed regular reports about its spending, which FEC determined was meant to sway the election fight between Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee.


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“Because Murray Energy’s ‘STOP the WAR on COAL - FIRE OBAMA’ signs are public communications that contain express advocacy, they required a disclaimer,” FEC attorneys said in an administrative filing.

Murray, led by Bob Murray, is an outspoken critic of Obama’s environmental agenda, which it says amounts to a “war on coal.”

Bob Murray received widespread attention in 2012 when he was accused of compelling coal miners to attend a Romney rally.

In its own filings, attorneys for Murray said the company only paid to reproduce signs that had already been printed. To accuse it of electioneering for simple furthering a “pop culture” phenomenon would be outside of the scope of election law, Murray argued.

FEC reached the settlement in September, but only disclosed it Friday.

Murray spokesman Gary Broadbent said the company and Bob Murray “consider the matter closed, will continue to vigorously exercise their rights to participate in the political process as the law allows.”
 
Yeah, that's not being heavy handed at all.

Makes you wonder if we still have our freedom of speech or not.

I am beginning to think, the latter.
 
It looks like the states are finally pushing back on the Obama/EPA power grab. I'm disappointed that PA isn't on the list since we are a coal producing state. I will look into that but I am assuming our Obamalite governor is behind it. He's also trying to tax fracking out of business in PA.

Twenty-four states have banded together to fight President Obama’s signature climate-change rule that cracks down on power plant emissions, accusing the administration of an “aggressive” play for power.
“EPA’s rule is flatly illegal and one of the most aggressive executive branch power grabs we’ve seen in a long time,” said West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who’s leading up a 24-state lawsuit just filed against the administration, the Hill reported. “The EPA cannot do what it intends to do legally.”
The suit filed in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks an overturn of a new rule put in place through Obama that orders states to shift from fossil fuel power to wind and solar.
As Morrisey said, the rule is “the single most onerous and illegal regulation that we’ve seen coming out of D.C. in a long time,” the Hill reported.
He said the suit seeks an immediate stay.
The rule, the Clean Power Plan, demands states oversee 32 percent cuts in power companies’ carbon emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. Each state’s been given a specific emission goal.
States say the EPA is moving beyond its regulatory jurisdiction and powers. The EPA, meanwhile, says that’s not so.
“The Clean Power Plan has strong scientific and legal foundations, provides states with broad flexibilities to design and implement plans and is clearly within EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act,’ EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement released Friday. ““We are confident we will again prevail against these challenges and will be able to work with states to successfully implement these first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution the largest source of carbon emissions in the United States.”
The other states seeking the stay: Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Arizona and North Carolina.
 
It's going to take everyone to band together.

That or forcibly removing the epa from the states.
 
It's going to take everyone to band together.

That or forcibly removing the epa from the states.
With 24 states in that lawsuit it does make me wonder if they lost in court, what would happen if they stood together, kicked the EPA out of their states and used their state guard and police to enforce it? What are they going to do, attack 24 states? They may try and make an example of one or two but I don't think the American public would let them. I'm kind of thinking the Bundy ranch and Sugar Land Mine standoffs but on a much larger scale.

Did anyone look closely at the states in this lawsuit? None are the more larger, liberal minded states. Not one state in the northeast signed on and those states are all coal users. As I noted PA is both a user and producer. Perhaps it would help gather more support for the lawsuit if the coal producing states stopped shipments to them. The specter of no electricity and a power grid dump when their inventory ran out should help them remember which side they should be on. Of course B Hussein Obama would probably try to nationalize the coal mines at that point.

In reality I don't think the states/people are there yet for such a showdown with the feds. I just hope that when they are ready they aren't in two weakened of a position to win such a standoff. Sorry to ramble on with "what if's".
 
Nothing wrong with "what if's".

It means that you have given it considerable thought.

As for showdown with the fed's, that has happened here more than once.
 
The EPA needs to be crippled from the top Down. Then the AQMD, then BLM, IRS,
SOME A$$hat Acronym agency cries over coal power and an entire state is crippled. What a shame what this country has become.
My condolences to all in Kentcky, tenneessee and Virginia in the coal industry.
 
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/334651291.html

There is also a video news clip in the link that I can't embed.

Approximately 180 Corbin CSX employees to lose jobs

Approximately 180 Corbin CSX employees will be out of work after three separate businesses were closed by the company. A release from CSX says the combination of low natural gas prices and regulatory action has "significantly decreased CSX’s coal movements over the past four years, with more than $1 billion in coal revenue declines during that time."

Carpenter guides economic development for the town of 7,300. He said the downturn in the economy -- what happened to the coal industry in eastern Kentucky -- is now starting to "trickle down to us, in the southern part of the state.”

State Representative Regina Bunch said the layoffs are "just the latest casualty of President Obama’s War on Coal."
"Because coal production has been greatly reduced in large measure by the war on coal, that means companies like CSX have less product to haul to market," she said.
 
http://bonhamjournal.com/2016/01/17/united-states-sets-moratorium-on-new-federal-coal-leases.html

United States sets moratorium on new federal coal leases

excerpt:
change the way federal coal and oil was managed to "better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet".
The new plan will require federal officials, when weighing land use decisions, to consider how burning coal could worsen climate change, said sources familiar with the plans.

The Energy Information Administration says roughly 41 percent of USA coal production occurs on federal land. The groups have long said the government's 12.5 percent
royalty rate for coal mining on federal land encouraged production of a "dirty" fuel that contributes to global warming. We are turning the corner to a future in which we will no longer let our health suffer from the dangers of coal mining and development, no longer sacrifice our public lands, our climate, and our communities for a fossil fuel that has wreaked havoc for generations.
 
Al Gore's 10 year prediction in 2006 to save the planet runs out...what a dumbass.

Ten years ago, Rush Limbaugh started a countdown clock after Al Gore reportedly claimed there were only 10 years left to save the world from the ravages of global warming.
Actor and activist Larry David was quoted as saying, “You know, Al is a funny guy, but he’s also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.”
For 10 years, the Al Gore “Armageddon” clock counted down at Rush Limbaugh’s website, heading toward its expiration at midnight Tuesday.
And it looks like civilization still is here.
“Well, here we are and nothing’s changed,” scoffed Limbaugh on Tuesday’s program. “It isn’t any hotter than it was.”
Limbaugh said he’s still working on what he and his team will do when the clock officially hits zero as they hadn’t thought about it until this week.
“What do we do when the thing hits zero?” he joked. “We started this 10 years ago, who thinks 10 years down the road, other than we knew that Gore was full of it and that whatever he was saying wasn’t gonna happen, wasn’t gonna be true.”
Marc Fitch, author of “Shmexperts: How Ideology and Power Politics Are Disguised As Science,” says even the collapse of these kinds of doomsday predictions won’t do anything to discredit radical environmentalism among the faithful believers of global warming any time soon.
“The unfortunate truth of the matter is that environmentalists will only lose credibility with those who are already skeptical of the global warming movement,” Fitch told WND. “I think time will ultimately make the difference. The global warming movement in general seems to be grasping at any and everything these days to make their case, but the more they try to tie everything (ISIS, immigration, disease, war) to global warming, the more it just falls on deaf ears.”
Average temperature has remained steady for 15 years and some climate scientists suggest the Earth is on the verge of another ice age. Yet Fitch observed environmentalists keep deploying hysterical rhetoric to win over Americans to their cause.
“One of the problems with the environmental movement is that no good news is ever good news,” said Fitch. “The fact that the polar ice caps haven’t melted is seen as a reason to fight harder for their cause rather than give pause for consideration. One would figure that their dire predictions not materializing would be seen as a ray of hope, but instead activists see it as just further reason to preach doom and gloom.”
“Climategate” exposes the global warming scam. Get it now at the WND Superstore.
The bad-news-is-great-for-the-agenda strategy doesn’t seem to be working. A recent poll suggested Americans are relatively unconcerned about climate change, compared to the rest of the developed world.
Part of the problem for radical environmentalists, Fitch suggested, is their grim predictions don’t match up with the facts on the ground.
“There is always an explanation for why their models haven’t been correct or their dire predictions haven’t materialized,” he said. “In fact, there are usually many explanations. We’ve seen coal usage simultaneously cited as the cause of global warming and the reason that the Earth hasn’t warmed enough. With such a massively complex system like the climate, nearly any explanation can be made; it’s like playing connect the dots with the stars in the sky, there are probably millions of different lines of reasoning that can be drawn to make whatever picture you like.”
Limbaugh also mocked the inability of global warming activists to predict the future.
“They’re having to make excuses for the heat that never happened by claiming the ocean ate it,” he laughed. “Oh, yeah, the ocean ate the heat. It’s way down there at 700 feet below the surface. Well, 700 meters. So that would be almost a half a mile down there. That’s where all the heat is, and it’s gonna come bubbling up there. It’s gonna heat the saltwater, and the heat that the oceans ate is gonna heat up the saltwater, the saltwater is gonna flood and that’s how we’re gonna get the rising sea. This was in all of the pro-global warming, climate change analysis of last week.”
Unfortunately, Fitch said the global warming hysteria will continue for the foreseeable future, regardless of the facts, and skeptics may not live to see themselves vindicated.
“The public may grow even less concerned than they are now and politicians may eventually start to shy away from the global warming panic, but global warming activists do have time on their side,” he said.
“We know that the climate changes because it has done so in the past. We also know that it changes slowly but it does, sooner or later, shift. When that happens – whether we go into another ice age or become like the surface of Venus – some small cadre of activists will still be standing there with a sign saying that it is because of Big Oil.
“It’s like the sidewalk preacher who constantly warns, ‘The end is near.’ He doesn’t have to be right tomorrow, just right eventually. That’s the biggest asset that the activists have; they are warning about things 200 years in the future. Whether they are right or wrong doesn’t matter here and now and so they never have to admit to being wrong, just being a bit early in their predictions.”
 
...and here comes Hitlery Clinton to finish what Obama started. She is a pathological liar and I don't believe a word she says about helping coal mine communities.

Hillary Clinton shocked voters during a Democratic townhall Sunday night, vowing to put “a lot of coal miners” out of business.
“We’re gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Clinton declared.
Clinton, who was advocating for policies similar to those of President Barack Obama, which have reportedly cut 125,000 jobs from the coal industry and cost more than $650 billion, made statements that didn’t quite align with her campaign’s official policy regarding America’s coal industry. The campaign has pledged a $30 billion plan to transition the industry to clean energy jobs, not simply put them out of business.
According to the Clinton campaign website, Clinton, as president, will “revitalize coal communities” to ensure that “coal miners, power plant operators, transportation workers, and their families get the respect they deserve and the benefits they have earned.” The former secretary of state also claims she will make “coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century.”
Still, Clinton’s remarks are surprising, given that there are upcoming Democratic primaries in the crucial coal-rich states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
 
That is the nice way of saying it Mike.

She's not going to do anything to help anyone, except herself, and her buddies. She will say anything to get elected, even if she has to lie to everyone, everywhere to do it.

Straight from the play book. Tell the viewers what they want to hear. Tell the viewers tomorrow what they want to hear, even if the two are polar opposite from the day before.

 
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