Coal country and EPA rules: Not always partisan

Published June 4, 2014 9:16am ET



BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — If all politics are local, a key industry in a lawmaker’s turf may be enough to have him at odds with his own party’s figurehead — President Barack Obama.

That’s the case for Democrat Bill Enyart, a first-term Illinois congressman seeking re-election in a contested southern Illinois’ 12th District race.

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