Coal industry: Clinton just Obama 2.0

Published May 2, 2016 5:34pm ET



A coal group is seeking to upend Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s two-day tour of Appalachia that started Monday, saying she is nothing more than President Obama 2.0 when it comes to piling regulations on a struggling coal industry.

“It’s a bold move to stand before the very communities that will be devastated by the policies Secretary Clinton supports continuing and ask that they put their trust in her,” said American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity’s Laura Sheehan, senior vice president of communications, after Clinton arrived in Kentucky and West Virginia Monday.

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