Mar 18, 2015· Even so, saving coal jobs has been the sole focus of a well-financed effort by Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and coal industry allies looking to kill President Obama…
Dec 01, 2016· The truth is that voters in West ia, Kentucky, Wyoming and other coal-producing states — areas where Trump crushed Clinton with 63 percent to 70 percent of the vote — have been sold a bill of goods by this would-be savior of the coal industry and its mining jobs.
Oct 24, 2015· West ia Tells The Story Of America's Shifting Political Climate : It's All Politics There are few places where Obama is less liked than West …
Jan 23, 2017· Kentucky Republican Matt Bevin ran for governor on a platform devoted almost exclusively to killing Obamacare, including its expansion of …
May 28, 2015· Economic programs aimed at transitioning coal country's economy, like Obama has proposed in his budget, would do far more good than killing EPA regulations. And it's not …
Oct 23, 2012· Recent polls show that Mitt Romney has built a three-point lead over President Obama in ia. Obama’s strategy to kill coal in the western part of the state and diminish the Navy in the eastern part of the state has done little to help the president narrow that gap.
Sep 26, 2013· President Obama, Why Are You So Determined To Kill America's Coal Industry? ... These costs will quickly reverberate throughout our economy. If there are no coal plants, there is …
4 days ago· It looks like it’s finally time to say goodbye to President Obama’s power plant rule – and hello to energy independence. I am thrilled to join Kentuckians this week in celebrating our latest victory in our ongoing fight to end the War on Coal, with the Trump administration announcing their finalized Affordable Clean Energy rule. This would replace President Obama…
Nov 12, 2015· Clinton pledges $30 billion to coal communities. And as many as 10 eastern Kentucky communities now back Obama plan to help coal-mining communities.
Nov 28, 2016· Trump Isn't Bringing Coal Back ... Huffington Post Senior Reporter Kate Sheppard wrote that President Obama’s regulations didn’t kill coal. “What’s driving the coal industry into bankruptcy is the free market — competition from cheaper, more abundant natural gas and renewable energy.” ... Bringing back coal in a natural gas economy ...
Sep 07, 2012· The coal industry is going through some tough times, but President Obama is only partly to blame. President Obama has taken a lot of heat lately for killing the coal …
Aug 07, 2015· Coal is having a rough year. Between President Obama’s new Clean Power Plan, the pope’s moral pronouncements on climate change and the abundance of cheap natural gas, there’s not …
Feb 15, 2019· Trump is losing his rallying cry to save coal. The Tennessee Valley Authority voted to retire two coal-fired power plants in the next few years despite a plea from the president to keep one of the plants open. Trump had posted an oddly specific tweet that urged the government-owned utility to save the 49-year-old Paradise 3 plant in Kentucky.
Sep 23, 2012· I can understand why President Obama would deny that his administration is waging a war on coal. In the midst of difficult economic times, it would be politically risky if he told the bald truth, that his administration has launched a pincer attack on both coal production and consumption, for no discernible purpose other than to placate a political constituency.
He says that will kill any future domestic market for Kentucky coal. Graddy, who is part of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Initiative, counters that the switch away from coal as a power source has more to do with economics than regulations.
Apr 20, 2017· Mr Trump says coal's demise is because of what he calls Barack Obama's job killing regulations aimed at protecting the environment. Essentially it costs …
Jun 02, 2014· Obama EPA Issues Coal-Killing Rules To Cut Carbon Emissions 30 Percent. ... Forbes Staff Energy Tweet This ... Don't believe the hype that these new EPA rules will destroy the economy …
Aug 20, 2012· Not All Union Bosses Support Obama’s Job-Killing War On Coal ... Not All Union Bosses Support Obama’s Job-Killing War On Coal. Posted at 4:15 pm on August 20, ... American Electric Power withdrew its application for a $1 billion retrofit of its Big Sandy plant in Kentucky; it now plans to shutter five of its 21 coal-fired facilities ...
Apr 05, 2019· Thus far Kentucky’s Democrat gubernatorial candidates have remained silent about their party’s embrace of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”. This is most likely a very smart move by these candidates in a state that has already seen thousands of mine workers unemployed due to Obama-era coal restrictions.
Dec 14, 2018· Do climate policies have a negative effect on jobs? Climate change will hurt the economy if not addressed, but evidence on how environmental regulations affect unemployment is mixed.
Many Republicans have blamed environmental regulations enacted during the Obama administration for the decline of the country’s coal industry. ... What is clear from this discussion is that environmental regulations did not kill coal. Progress is the culprit. ... Greenstone and Knittel, “The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of ...
Oct 02, 2014· After all, Kentucky's economy is not nearly as dependent upon coal as McConnell's and Grimes's campaign ads suggest. At its peak in 1948, coal mining employed more than 75,000 people in Kentucky. But although the state remains the nation's third largest coal producer, mining employment dipped below 12,000 by the end of 2013 .
Jun 02, 2014· Obama’s ‘war on coal’ doesn’t exist. ... Their bogus claim: Overreaching federal regulations are killing coal jobs. Central Appalachia is a crucible for the midterms, as a recent ... For Senate hopefuls running in traditionally coal-friendly states such as West ia and Kentucky, painting Obama as anti-coal is practically a ...
The closure of coal-fired power plants across the United States is currently on track to set a new record this year, with at least 22 plants in 14 states worth 15.4 gigawatts (GW) going dark ...
So it's not Obama's regulations that are killing coal. What's driving the coal industry into bankruptcy is the free market -- competition from cheaper, more abundant natural gas and renewable energy. Meanwhile, the costs of mining coal have increased.
The Obama Idea to Save Coal Country. ... Water security has always been something of an inverse indicator of Eastern Kentucky’s economic health. The more polluted the water, the better the mines ...
Sep 23, 2014· McConnell's long, desperate lie: Economics, not Obama, is killing Kentucky coal McConnell says Obama's "war on coal" will end Kentucky's coal industry. Here's what he doesn't say ... BROWSE SALON.COM
For thousands of years coal has been used as an important source of energy, and while it once played a crucial role in driving the Industrial Revolution, today, coal is one of the largest sources ...
Mar 29, 2017· Analysts say the economics of domestic energy markets and increasing automation, not environmental regulations, are to blame for a decades-long decline in coal mining jobs.
7 days ago· The Obama rule, adopted in 2015, sought to reshape the country's power system by encouraging utilities to rely less on dirtier-burning coal-fired power plants and more on electricity from natural ...
Job declines in the US coal industry will likely continue, Obama regulations are not responsible for its ills, and nothing the federal government can do, short of declaring martial law and ...
Aug 03, 2015· Cheap natural gas is killing coal: Coal's downfall has been in the making for a long time. Its collapse accelerated after Obama took office, but the White House may not …
May 27, 2016· Trump’s Energy Plan: Save Coal by Unleashing Fracking? The Republican candidate will also “cancel” the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, roll back EPA clean air …
