Today In Trump: Make America Miserable Again By Rolling Back Clean Power Regs
Coal mining is not coming back. Even coal companies admit that. The role of coal in energy production has largely been superseded by natural gas, and continues to diminish over time.
Many Trump voters in West Virginia and surrounds know this, but they still cling to their hopes that jobs will once again flow free in the land where coal was king.
And so today, Donald Trump went to the EPA and signed an executive order gutting President Obama's Clean Power Plan, the blueprint for making a shift from fossil fuels to renewables. Among other things, the new order permits coal mining on public lands.
At the EPA he did this. The agency tasked with protecting our water, our air, our environment. He signed the damned thing at the EPA.
Speaking to the coal miners flanking him, Trump said, “C’mon fellas. You know what this is? You know what this says? You’re going back to work.”
Except, they're not. Murray Energy founder and CEO warned just this week to temper expectations, because there's really no need for the expense of coal mining when they can just frack the hell out of everything for the gas.