Murray Energy Corp. this morning announced it would sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to combat what the company terms the EPA's "illegal promulgation of senseless and destructive regulations, with absolutely no regard for their job and family destruction."

Murray Energy is required by law to notify any federal agency in advance of such a lawsuit.

The company states in a press release that the federal Clean Air Act "clearly requires the Obama EPA to consider job losses in its issuance of regulations, and it has never complied with the law."

In the notice, Murray Energy demands the EPA evaluate the job losses caused by its regulations. Over the past several years, according to Murray, the EPA has put forth a series of rules and regulations seeking to eliminate the domestic coal industry, and the jobs and low cost electricity that it provides.

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