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The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary has a new web site and are asking everyone to visit the new web site www.friendsofcoalladies.com as many times as you can.  For each time you visit, the web site moves up so when you type “coal” into your search engine the web site will be one of the top listed in your search.   The site also hosts a full store for purchase of FOC items and wearing apparel.

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Please ask Senators Rockefeller and Manchin for their HELP in (1) controlling EPA and, (2) HELPING to protect our jobs, our way of life and our future.  Ask them to HELP with two major issues that are currently pending in Congress that are very important to our industry, our people and the entire State of West Virginia.  We need to get as many messages of support as possible to the Senators.   The two issues are:
 
1. The “Fly Ash” Amendment to the Surface Transportation Bill currently being considered by a conference committee.  Senator Rockefeller is a member of this conference committee and has been quoted as saying he is currently opposed to making the amendment part of the Transportation Bill!  This amendment will STOP EPA’s efforts to classify regular power plant fly ash as hazardous, which it is clearly not!   If EPA is not STOPPED, it will become nearly impossible to recycle this ash for use in concrete, highway, bridge and building construction and regular, controlled storage which we have been doing for years.  If EPA is not STOPPED, the costs of electricity from coal-fired power plants and highway construction projects will increase substantially.  For years, we have proven we know how to handle, manage and control fly ash!  This amendment is vital to West Virginia and  needs to be approved by this conference committee.
 
2.  (SJR 37) Senate Joint Resolution 37  will be considered by the full Senate on June 12.  This Resolution will STOP one of EPA’s most damaging rulemakings ever imposed on American coal-burning power plants.  It is called the “Utility MACT” rule (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) and has prompted  the premature closing of a number of coal-fired power plants across the country, including several in West Virginia.  If it is not stopped it is projected to cost tens of thousands of jobs and increase our electric bills by as much as 25 percent -- to rates that our seniors and those on fixed income can't afford. SJR 37 will STOP EPA from implementing this rule and force them to obtain Congressional approval before any other newly proposed rule can be put into effect.  A simple majority of 51 Senators is needed to pass this Resolution.  We need both of our Senators to support this important Resolution.
 
You can send your messages by following these quick and simple steps.  Thanks for your HELP.
 
You can go to our webpage by clicking here and send them email messages by simply entering your name and address.  These email messages will go directly to the Senators’ offices.  Please have all your employees send a message and encourage them to have members of their family also send messages.

• Once you get to the webpage, click on each of the two HELP banners to get to the messages for both issues
• Please -- SEND BOTH MESSAGES"
• The prepared messages may be sent, as displayed on the right of the page; OR
• The message may be changed in any way you wish on the left side of the page.

Should you wish to contact the Senators--

• By writing regular letters and mailing them to the addresses shown below, or—
• By telephoning their offices at the numbers shown below…

… Asking them to support the two issues:

THANKS for your HELP and SUPPORT…

Contact information for Senators:

Senator Jay Rockefeller
405 Capitol Street
Suite 508
Charleston, WV
25301-1749
(304) 347-5372
(304) 347-5371 Fax

or

531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
20510
(202) 224-6472
(202) 224-7665 Main Fax
 
Senator Joe Manchin
300 Virginia Street, East
Suite 2630
Charleston, WV 25301
304-342-5855

or

303 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 202-224-3954
Fax: 202-228-0002
Toll-free number at 855-275-5737

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The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary has a new web site and are asking everyone to visit the new web site www.friendsofcoalladies.comas many times as you can.  For each time you visit, the web site moves up so when you type "coal" into your search engine the web site will be one of the top listed in your search.   The site also hosts a full store for purchase of FOC items and wearing apparel.

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The Friends of Coal would like everyone to go to the Smithsonian Fly America Channel page and let them know you are proud of the work coal miners do, both underground and surface, and give them some ideas about aerial scenes on reclaimed surface mines or post-mine land use sites that show the positive impact of mining on our state.

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?series=701#upcoming-states

PASS IT ON!