{"id":1590110,"date":"2022-08-05T06:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590110"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:33:50","slug":"coal-industry-leaders-condemn-manchin-backed-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coal-industry-leaders-condemn-manchin-backed-climate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Industry Leaders Condemn Manchin-Backed Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoal-industry-leaders-condemn-manchin-backed-climate-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The West Virginia Coal Association and several other state coal groups blasted Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia for sponsoring a bill that will \u201cseverely threaten\u201d the industry in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of eight state coal trade associations slammed Manchin for joining his party in supporting the purported \u201cInflation Reduction Act of 2022,\u201d which contains provisions that will target the coal industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wvmetro-uploads-prod\/2022\/08\/Consolidated-Opposition-Manchin-Schumer-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the statement. Manchin\u2019s support for the bill, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/07\/27\/statement-from-president-biden-on-inflation-reduction-act-of-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed<\/a> by President Joe Biden and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/28\/joe-manchin-climate-bill-fossil-fuels-reaction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">environmental activists<\/a>, is causing the coal sector to doubt the senator\u2019s efforts to protect coal jobs across America. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/01\/manchin-climate-deal-fund-epa-quietly-circumvent-scotus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Manchin May Be Handing EPA The Ability To Circumvent SCOTUS, Throttle The Coal Industry)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation will serve to severely threaten American coal and the $261 Billion of annual revenues that it produces for the nation\u2019s overall economy and attendant 381,000 American jobs,\u201d the groups said, citing statistics from West Virginia University\u2019s Bureau of Business and Economic Research.<\/p>\n<p>The package will hand the Environmental Protection Agency $45 million to regulate greenhouse gases that come from coal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCODE-2013-title42\/html\/USCODE-2013-title42-chap85-subchapI-partC-subparti-sec7475.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facilities<\/a> under the Clean Air Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/inflation_reduction_act_of_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the bill. The bill also increases the tax per ton of coal coming from underground mines from $0.50 to $1.10 and hikes the tax on surface mines from $0.25 to $0.55 by changing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/26\/4121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax code<\/a> and striking down a subsection that reduced taxes on coal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation is so egregious, it leaves those of us that call Senator Manchin a friend, shocked and disheartened,\u201d the associations continued.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7493725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7493725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MATEWAN, WV \u2013 MARCH 31: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) holds a Town Hall meeting with coal miners on March 31, 2017 in Matewan, West Virginia.\u00a0 (Photo by Bill Pugliano\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The groups further claim the bill, which Democrats want to pass this weekend, will \u201cdo nothing for coal or coal generation\u201d and won\u2019t cut inflation or lower energy costs for families.\u00a0Chris Hamilton, the president of the West Virginia Coal Association, signed the statement with leaders of the Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Texas mining associations.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker Davis, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, called the bill a hodgepodge of \u201cgrab-bag policies pulled from the most radical fringes of the Democratic Caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill is a dream-come-true for Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, but it\u2019s a nightmare for the hardworking men and women of America,\u201d Davis told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7493691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7493691\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7493691\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1412537748-scaled-e1659620053364-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7493691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 AUGUST 02: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to reporters outside of his office in the Hart Senate Office Building on August 02, 2022 in Washington, DC. Negotiations in the U.S. Senate continue for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>West Virginia accounted for nearly 13% of the nation\u2019s total coal output in 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/state\/print.php?sid=WV#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20West%20Virginia%20was,nation%2C%20after%20Wyoming%20and%20Illinois.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, making it the nation\u2019s second-largest producer of coal after Wyoming. Coal mining supported nearly 27,000 jobs in West Virginia and was responsible for $2.1 billion in employee compensation in 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchrepository.wvu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1326&#038;context=bureau_be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to a West Virginia University study.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin said he didn\u2019t agree with predictions the bill will lead to coal plants closing in his state on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3586854-coal-industry-shocked-and-disheartened-by-manchin-climate-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Hill. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case at all,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cCoal is going to be needed for the base load that we\u2019re going to have to have,\u201d he continued, arguing that coal will still produce enough electricity to satisfy domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin agreed to support the climate and tax bill in part due to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/joe-manchin-permitting-reform-inflation-reduction-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permitting reform<\/a> promises made by his party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely oppose raising taxes on the coal industry,\u201d Republican\u00a0West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney told the DCNF. \u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s reckless tax and spend policies are directly responsible for launching our nation into a recession. \u2026 It is a terrible time to raise taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story has been updated with comment from the Kentucky Coal Association and Rep. Alex Mooney.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Coal Association and several other state coal groups blasted Democratic Sen. 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