A train loaded with coal in Williamson, West Virginia. One of the big justifications the Trump administration is using to dismantle US climate policies is that these moves would help reverse the collapse of the coal industry and bring back mining jobs.
“Will it bring back coal jobs? I think absolutely it will,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said on Sunday, of Trump’s new executive order.
I’ve explained in the past why this is probably wrong — coal mining employment is in decline for a wide variety of reasons: automation of mining; competition from cheap natural gas in the power sector; collapsing […]
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