Senator Brian Helton (R-Fayette) claims the coal industry has been targeted since the Biden and Obama administrations.
According to the senator, we lost six coal-fired plants as a result of stringent EPA regulations imposed on utility companies.
“To use renewable, unreliable sources of energy such as wind and solar has had a terrible impact on our economy in West Virginia,” said Mr. Johnson. “It’s resulted in the loss of so many jobs and opportunities for West Virginians; instead of utilizing hot, burning West Virginia coal.”
Governor Patrick Morrisey, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Brian Helton, the West Virginia Coal Association, and others support President Trump’s new energy policies.
“This resolution, the Coal Renaissance Act, calls on the utility companies to return to a 69% usage of our coal-fired plants,” claimed Helton. “It calls on them to move away from unreliable energy sources.”
West Virginians take pride in the coal industry. The senator claims we have the greatest natural resource right here.
“Follow President Trump’s initiative and our new EPA guidelines, do the right thing, and restore these coal-fired plants to full production,” Helton told the crowd.
According to the senator, coal has numerous advantages, including lower electric bills, more jobs for West Virginians, and improved national security.
“Other renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, provide intermittent energy. They’re extremely unreliable if the wind isn’t strong enough or the sun isn’t bright enough,” Helton said. “Right now our government has subsidized and played favorites to pick the Green New Deal unreliable sources of energy.”
The senator believes that coal is the most reliable source of energy and has proven itself time and again.
“What powers the last 200 years of our Industrial Revolution has been powered by coal,” Helton told the crowd. “We want to return to that powerful place. “Have a reliable source of energy that does nothing but boom economically for Southern West Virginia and the entire United States of America.”
