Candidate Trump's most frequent, and least probable, promise, was the rekindling of the coal industry. President Trump is undermining the miners. Relaxing and removing regulations, jeopardizes their well being, without increasing employment.
Trump's drill baby, drill policy is the baby driver speeding up the inevitable reduction of coal jobs in the United States. The LA Times recently outlined the rise of natural gas at the expense of coal. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20180122/281616715788761 In 2016 natural gas supplanted coal as the primary source of electric power generation. Although coal has other uses, electric generation has 10 times the usage of steel production, the next largest coal dependent industry.
Natural gas is abundant, cheap, and has a smaller carbon footprint than coal. Because of extraction methods, and a still existent climate impact, natural gas is not the friend of environmentalists. But, coal wears the black hat.
Coal mining is a tough, dirty job. The president should not make it worse with dirty lies.
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