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“If the Obama administration wants to know how to get the economy back on track, they should look at their regulators and tell them to stop killing our economy,” Virginia U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-9th, said in a written statement about the new report. Read more »

On Flag Day we remember the freedom and sacrifice represented by our flag. From the birth of the flag to today, it has symbolized the pride of our nation and great hope for the future. Read more »

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Toxicology Program’s listing of styrene and formaldehyde in the 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC). After the RoC is approved by the HHS, it can be used by regulatory agencies and others for decision making:“Here we go again. Just… Read more »

AEP, the parent company of Appalachian Power, says it may have to close five power plants, including its Glen Lyn facility in Giles County, because of what it calls an “unrealistic” deadline by the EPA to comply with strict new air pollution standards. Read more »

More regulations = Lost jobs and high costs. This is what I have been talking and writing about. As you know, due to proposed EPA regulations, American Electric Power (AEP) announced last week that five of their coal-fired power plants are slated to close by December 2014 along with production cuts at six others. The Glen Lyn Plant in Giles County is one of those scheduled to close. In Russell County, two of the three generators at the Clinch River Plant will be shut down as well. Read more »

Here we go again. Just yesterday we learned that proposed regulations from the EPA will cost us jobs by closing the Glen Lyn Plant in Giles County and will cost additional jobs by restructuring the Clinch River Plant in Russell County. Read more »

If the Glen Lyn plant is forced to close by the end of 2014, Appalachian Power Co. customers could pay 10 percent to 15 percent more on their monthly bills as a result of that and other shutdowns, company spokesman Todd Burns said. Read more »

This is what I have been talking about. More burdensome EPA regulations, more jobs lost. Read more »

Politics is bad in Richmond, but it’s worse in Washington, two congressmen who used to be state lawmakers told local business leaders Tuesday. Read more »

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the US House of Representatives last week would remove barriers for the production of alternative fuels from coal, biomass, algae and waste through loan guarantees and federal fuel contracts. Read more »