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Coal Plant Closures Accelerate Under President Trump
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Feb 20, 2018 12:00pm |
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Author | Emma Foehringer Merchant |
News Date | Monday, February 19, 2018 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | In his first State of the Union address, Trump declared that “we have ended the war on American energy, and we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal.”
According to the Sierra Club, though, more coal capacity closed in the first 45 days of 2018 than in Obama’s entire first term.
Blair Zimmerman, a former coal miner and current county commissioner in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where the 4 West Mine closed in January, said the Trump administration hasn’t made any measurable impacts in that rural area.
"There's not been any significant change in the industry since he's taken over,” he told CNN. |
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