LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is
bashing the Environmental Protection Agency in a harsh critique
delivered to a coal group.
The Kentucky Republican claims federal regulators have
"declared war" on the coal industry. McConnell said in his speech
Wednesday that it's time for Congress to rein in the agency created
by fellow Republican Richard Nixon decades ago.
In prepared remarks for his speech to the Kentucky Coal
Association in Lexington, McConnell accuses the EPA of "changing
the rules in the middle of the game" with its regulations. The
result, he said, has put many Kentucky mining operations in limbo.
McConnell has proposed legislation that would require the EPA to
move faster in granting federal permits needed to open coal mines.

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