Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell called President Obama’s anti-coal agenda “immoral” on Friday, while vowing to continue the fight against job-killing regulations even after the president has left office.

“They would have you believe it’s immoral to use coal,” the Kentucky Republican said Friday in an op-ed published in the Appalachian News-Express in eastern Kentucky. “Here’s what’s immoral: pursuing ideological policies that will have little meaningful impact on the environment, but will have a very negative impact on our economy, on jobs and on our way of life.