U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)
said he is hoping to have an answer soon from Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Gina McCarthy on when she will visit West Virginia
“We’re going to keep pushing this. She needs
to come and give us their plan from the EPA or this administration on what they
intend to do,” said Manchin.
Manchin was one of the elected
officials who sent a letter to McCarthy on Tuesday, again inviting her to visit
West Virginia Washington , D.C.
involving McCarthy and more than a dozen Democrats from West Virginia
“We respectfully request that you
come to the Mountain State, speak with our people, and see, first hand, the
real life impact of EPA regulations on the everyday lives of West Virginians,”
the letter read.
The letter also expressed
“disappointment” with the recent series of listening sessions the EPA
scheduled across the United States
A few weeks ago, Manchin said he
told McCarthy she “had to come to West
Virginia
“I still like to think, if you’re
in public service, you want to hear what’s going on, good, bad or indifferent,”
he said.
In addition to Manchin, those who
signed the letter to McCarthy were Third Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV),
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, Senate President Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall), House
Speaker Tim Miley (D-Harrison), Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, state
Auditor Glen Gainer, state Democratic Party Chair Larry Puccio and state Democratic
Party Vice-Chair Belinda Biafore.
Also included were Delegate Meshea
Poore (D-Kanawha, 37) and former state Democratic Party Chair Nick Casey, both
candidates for Congress, along with UMWA President Cecil Roberts, West Virginia
AFL-CIO President Kenny Perdue and West Virginia Coal Association Vice
President Chris Hamilton.
