"CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After more than four decades as a coal miner, Stanley Sturgill ambled into an ornate room at West Virginia’s state capitol Tuesday to deliver a stark message to the Trump administration: Climate change is real and continuing to burn the dirty fossil fuel hurts future generations.
He was among dozens of who squared off at a public hearing over the intended repeal of an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency was holding the only scheduled hearing on the policy reversal in Charleston, capital of a state heavily dependent on coal mining. The hearing was expected to last two days.
There were warnings from the other side, too — that the regulations threaten to choke off livelihoods in coal country and drive up people’s energy costs. But despite the locale of the hearing, those concerned about climate change packed the hearing room."
John Raby and Michael Biesecker report for the Associated Press November 28, 2017.
SEE ALSO:
"In The Heart Of Coal Country, EPA Gets An Earful About Clean Power Plan’s Fate" (Washington Post)
"U.S. Repeal Of Carbon Rule Criticized In Coal Country" (Reuters)
"E.P.A. Heads to Coal Country to Hear Views on an Obama Climate Rule" (New York Times)
"In The Heart Of Coal Country, EPA Hears Worries About The Climate"
Source: AP, 11/29/2017