VIDEO: REP. JENKINS QUESTIONS EPA
February 27, 2015
Press Release
“Why don’t you want to meet with the people? Meet with the people of West Virginia. Look at that coal miner in the eye.”
WASHINGTON – At a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing yesterday, U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) repeatedly asked EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy why she refuses to meet with West Virginia coal miners as the administration considers new energy regulations.
“The stakeholders that I care about are the hardworking men and women of West Virginia. It’s incredible to me that the administrator wants to go off and meet with groups. Why don’t you want to meet with the people? Meet with the people of West Virginia. Look at that coal miner in the eye. That coal miner may not be with a stakeholder group but they’ve got to put food on their table each and every day, and that hardworking miner needs to get government off its back,” Rep Jenkins said.
Administrator McCarthy appeared before the House Appropriations Committee’s Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee to testify on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s fiscal year 2016 budget justification. As an appropriator, Rep. Jenkins said he has a responsibility to study the agency’s budget and decide if the funding requested is justified and appropriate.
“This is your justification supposedly for what I call your war on coal, and it is a war on coal. It’s a war on the jobs of the people of West Virginia,” he said, gesturing to a copy of the budget justification.
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