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"Don't expect coal to come roaring back."
In which @HoppyKercheval buries the lead,
http://wvmetronews.com/2018/08/22/trump-delivers-on-coal-promise/ …
"Don’t expect coal to come roaring back. The energy landscape is changing rapidly and coal’s dominance as the nation’s primary energy source is now history."
Link to tweet
Trump delivers on coal promise
Hoppy's Commentary | August 22, 2018 at 12:22AM
President Trump has made good on a campaign promise to help the coal industry. The Trump administration’s EPA has announced the much-anticipated repeal of the Obama-era environmental rules that would be devastating to coal and proposed replacement rules that are far less restrictive.
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{Finally, in the ninth and final paragraph, you find this:}
Don’t expect coal to come roaring back. The energy landscape is changing rapidly and coal’s dominance as the nation’s primary energy source is now history. However, the new rule does correct the previous administration’s attempt to eliminate coal through regulatory fiat and allows more market-driven solutions to the nation’s energy needs.
Hoppy's Commentary | August 22, 2018 at 12:22AM
President Trump has made good on a campaign promise to help the coal industry. The Trump administration’s EPA has announced the much-anticipated repeal of the Obama-era environmental rules that would be devastating to coal and proposed replacement rules that are far less restrictive.
....
{Finally, in the ninth and final paragraph, you find this:}
Don’t expect coal to come roaring back. The energy landscape is changing rapidly and coal’s dominance as the nation’s primary energy source is now history. However, the new rule does correct the previous administration’s attempt to eliminate coal through regulatory fiat and allows more market-driven solutions to the nation’s energy needs.
Which means, nothing changes. The outcome will still be the same.
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declining for decades because of new technologies, policies of the 1980s, renewables and other alternative energies, as everyone knows. The remaining owners are the only ones to continue profiting from coal operations, MTR etc., that's all. From a daughter, niece and granddaughter of coal miners, for God's Sake!
~ Thank you Ken Ward Jr.
*The Cruelty Behind Trump's Absurd Lies About Coal To West Virginians*, By Joe Romm, Think Progress, Aug. 22, 2018.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-cruelty-behind-trumps-absurd-lies-about-coal-to-west-virginians-c4acc7dd5c5b/
