After Obama Democrat Joe Manchin voted to protect the EPA’s job-killing regulations, yesterday OhioAmerican Energy announced that they are shutting down.

OhioAmerican Energy specifically notes that the only reason they’re closing their operation – which will eliminate 239 jobs – is because of President Obama and Joe Manchin’s job-killing regulations.

As OhioAmerican Energy’s Press Release Reads:

“OhioAmerican Energy, Inc. (“OhioAmerican”), a Subsidiary of Murray Energy Corporation (“Murray Energy”), today announced the closure of its coal mining operations near Brilliant, Jefferson County, Ohio.  Regulatory actions by President Barack Obama and his appointees and followers were cited as the entire reason. ‘Mr. Obama has already destroyed 83,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricity generation in America,’ said Mr. Michael T. W. Carey, Vice President of Government Affairs for Murray Energy.”  (OhioAmerican Energy, Inc. Coal Mining  Operation Closed In Eastern Ohio, Press Release, 7/31/12)

“The consequence of Senator Joe Manchin siding with President Barack Obama’s job-killing regulations is simple: 239 people who work in the coal industry have lost their jobs,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh.  “If Joe Manchin and Barack Obama continue their war on coal, soon thousands of West Virginians will be out of a job and energy rates will skyrocket.”