This is John Batchelor speaking to my colleague Salina Zito of the Washington Examiner

in the Wall Street Journal attending an EPA gathering in Homer City, Pennsylvania,

Indiana County, a gathering of dozens of people who have been dishomed

or dis-jobed, thrown out of their jobs by decisions by the Energy Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to

close down energy communities such as coal or natural gas or electricity generating

communities, leading to lots of jobs lost at the plant, but

also the surrounding community, the small businesses.

The EPA sends out a rapid response team gathering for questions.

What we learned from this particular gathering is that there was no sympathy from the stage for the people who were

leaving behind their livelihoods. The stage was dominated by Ivy League graduates.

The questions all invariably came to look at the website. And when

one woman, a small business owner, said, I applied for a grant and never heard back. The answer from the stage was,

apply again. There's Salina Zito on the culture gap between the

efficient, very well- educated EPA representatives and the people of

Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana County who do not see their

future clearly, if at all all more of this later well there in lies the

problem the people that they sent do not add people they're good people right however

their understanding of the people they're supposed to be working with I

suspect was was difficult to empathize with, to connect with.

They need to say these are Harvard graduates.

These are people that live in the big city.

The one woman from the EPA lives in Philadelphia,

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