Senate Reverses the War on Coal! Bill Heading To Trump's Desk!

Phil Kerpen

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: Victory! yesterday, in a bipartisan 54 to 45 vote, the Senate repealed Obama’s so-called “stream buffer rule” that was designed to be “atomic” for the coal industry!

Four Democrats did the right thing and voted yes: Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri. Kudos to them and to the American Commitment members who wrote to them to put the pressure on. One Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, voted no.

President Trump will sign the resolution and officially strike down this disastrous rule – the first piece of Obama’s anti-American War on Coal of many to be reversed.

What’s next?

We need to get the Senate to stop stalling President Trump’s highly qualified nominee to run the EPA, Scott Pruitt.

Stopping the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Buffer Rule is a huge victory, but we can’t truly end the War on Coal and the most costly, aggressive attacks on American energy and jobs until Pruitt gets to the EPA and cleans house.

Thanks to you and other American Commitment members, who have been fighting back against the War on Coal since day one, we scored a huge victory in overturning the Stream Buffer Rule.

Let’s keep the pressure on to get Pruitt confirmed and take the fight for American energy to the EPA.
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment. Follow him at (@kerpen) and on Facebook. He is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service.

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