Obama Offers Grim Solace To Coal Communities

WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s announcement of $14.5 million in grants as part of the president’s “Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative”:

“The Obama administration’s ‘Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative’ offers grim solace to America’s coal families. After years of working to fulfill his campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry, the president has the audacity to claim he is ‘revitalizing’ these communities. President Obama’s destructive agenda has robbed coal communities of their jobs and their livelihood. Now he wants to be commended for throwing taxpayer money at a problem he created.”

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