Tomblin Bashes EPA Plan

{Charleston, West Virginia}...West Virginia's congressional delegation joined Governor Earl Ray Tomblin Wednesday in bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a plan to limit heat-trapping pollution from new power plants. Tomblin says it's clear the Obama administration is trying to end the use of coal with proposed guidelines that would eliminate jobs and drive up electricity costs in West Virginia, and he won't stand for it. Tomblin says his latest announcement is yet another example of the EPA's inappropriate use of its regulatory authority to set policy for our country, and those decisions reside within the Congress, not an unelected bureaucracy. Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin called the proposal "wrong-headed" and said it effectively prevents construction of any new coal-fired plants.