Tamar Hallerman
GHG Monitor
8/30/13
IN CONGRESS
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be hosting a Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee field hearing on the future of coal next week in Morgantown, W.Va. The Senator’s office said the hearing will gauge the current state of coal-fired electricity in the U.S., as well as the “challenges and opportunities” the industry will face in the coming years. Manchin was named chairman of the Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee earlier this year and remains one of the panel’s most vocal supporters of the coal industry and the Department of Energy’s Fossil Energy R&D program. The field hearing will be held Sept. 4 on West Virginia University’s campus. Witnesses had yet to be announced as of press time.