GOP candidates blast president’s coal policy

GOP candidates blast president’s coal policy

HUBBARD — An executive of a steel-casting company that specializes in energy equipment joined Republican nominees for the U.S. Senate in Ohio and Pennsylvania today in blasting the president’s policies on coal.

Michael A. Kamnikar, Ellwood Group Inc.’s senior vice president of marking and business development, said the federal government under President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has instituted “oppressive regulations championed in the war on coal that spells trouble for business like ours and for domestic energy jobs.”

Today’s press conference with Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Tom Smith, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, was at Ellwood Engineering Castings, a subsidiary of the Ellwood Group.

Coal, Ohio’s top source of energy, is a major campaign issue in the Senate race and the presidential election.

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