As Ken Ward points out, it is a sad commentary on the politics of West Virginia when one political party, the GOP, repeats the mantra of “Obama’s war on coal,” while the Democrats, holding the hands of King Coal, go to Washington to give Gina McCarthy, the new EPA head, an earful about regulations on the coal industry and coal mining.
In the meantime, neither party is speaking about the real reasons for coal’s decline in Appalachia: cheaper natural gas, competition from other coal producing areas, and the dwindling seams of cheap and easy coal in the Mountain State.
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