This morning’s New York Times reports on the popular uprising against the Obama administration’s radical green policies.  As the nation’s leading citizens’ lobby for responsible resource development, WTP reminds lawmakers they represent working families, not radical green activists.

Democrats in Appalachia are running away from the Obama administration’s coal record like their political lives depend on it…

…Along with the president’s push for limits on greenhouse gas emissions — a proposal panned by most U.S. coal companies — U.S. EPA in April singled out the six states for special restrictions on mountaintop removal coal mining. EPA also stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from issuing permits for 79 surface and mountaintop mines in the region, saying they would have violated the Clean Water Act. To date, six of those permits have been approved.

“I think there is a danger for Democrats that being seen as a Democrat means being seen as being a supporter of Obama’s EPA,” said Phil Smith, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America.

You may read the entire article at The New York Times website.

The Washington Times’ Kerry Picket reports on disturbing comments made by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, in an interview with NPR (emphasis is hers.)

NPR: I’d like to return to a conversation we had last October when you were hopeful that Congress would pass a climate change bill and didn’t. Now your agency is issuing new rules and regulations doing some of the things you hoped Congress would do: limiting emissions from cars and trucks, requiring some companies to install new technologies to reduce pollution, but how do you respond to the critics who say that the EPA is overstepping its authority?

JACKSON: You know, Liane, in some ways we haven’t changed our posture. We still call for and believe that legislation is a more comprehensive, better, more efficient way to make low carbon emissions part of our economic fiber—part of our sort of fiber as a country as we grow. That hasn’t changed. And the other thing that hasn’t changed is my belief that I have a legal obligation and an obligation under the Clean Air Act to move forward with regulatory steps. Now I’ve said all along that this isn’t either or. You can’t pick legislation or regulation entirely. You have to move in a way where those two, if you have them, are consistent. So what we’ll continue to do is take regulatory steps, but they’ll be modest…each and every one, because the economy…business needs time to understand the regulations that are coming at them,  and so there won’t be any huge shocks to the system.

Picket points out the law cited by Jackson requires the EPA to regulate all sources that emit more than 250 tons of carbon a year — and with the average American emitting 20 tons of carbon himself, Jackson would be regulating from Washington virtually all apartment buildings and small businesses.  Perhaps that’s what Jackson meant when she cryptically referred to “huge shocks to the system.”

Not only is WTP leading the fight against Cap and Tax in Congress, but we’re also fighting for common sense “no regulation without representation” legislation stripping the EPA of their unchecked, unchallenged authority to destroy jobs by simply making up their own rules.

This is enough to make my stomach churn!

The EPA this week has ordered two of their own attorneys to stop telling the truth about Cap and Tax, and the agency threatened firing the two employees they do not comply.

Allan Zabal and Laurie Williams are a married couple who are attorneys for the EPA.  After they learned the truth about the dangers of the Obama Cap and Tax scheme, they began to write blogs, post YouTube videos, and generally speak out about the terrible cost of Cap and Tax, as well as the legislation’s total ineffectiveness.   Now the EPA has ordered them to essentially shut up or be fired!

Even though the pair of truth tellers have gone to great length to state that their views are their own opinion, Obama’s EPA is ready and willing to go to great length silence any opposition to Cap and Tax.   This is a dark and frustrating chapter not only in the fight to stop Cap and Tax, but in the battle for free speech as well.

Despite Zabal and Williams being shut down by government censorship, the EPA has no power over your right to speak out against the dangers of Cap and Tax.  Please take a minute to tell your Senators that you don’t support the costly and dangerous Cap and Tax bill by signing Western Tradition Partnership’s e-petition.

You can read more about the EPA’s censorship of the truth over here at the Wall Street Journal.