Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell called President Obama's anti-coal agenda "immoral" on Friday, while vowing to continue the fight against job-killing regulations even after the president has left office.
"They would have you believe it's immoral to use coal," the Kentucky Republican said Friday in an op-ed published in the Appalachian News-Express in eastern Kentucky. "Here's what's immoral: pursuing ideological policies that will have little meaningful impact on the environment, but will have a very negative impact on our economy, on jobs and on our way of life.
"It's immoral to put people out of work who only seek to make a decent living, to provide for their families, and to provide a reliable source of energy for us all," he said.
He vowed to keep fighting Obama's "war on coal" and excessive regulations in the next administration, no matter who is elected to the Oval Office in November.
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