The U.S. is ditching coal, and the Supreme Court ruling won't change that. @StevenMufson explains why: https://t.co/hsJZCrEKPA
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) July 1, 2022
Terrific report by @caraNYT detailing how former coal miners in Kentucky are transitioning to new jobs installing solar panels:https://t.co/RgVOGYYFB7
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 2, 2022
Reminder: The mine workers union says BBB would incentivize creating renewable jobs in coal country. Manchin is blocking it: https://t.co/MTJaUIgRT5
Many coal country residents still don’t believe that investments in green technology would provide them with long-term jobs. Unfortunately for President Biden, this skepticism has threatened to undermine his efforts on climate change. https://t.co/fTZtmb8A18 pic.twitter.com/SICLzEkSYE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 12, 2021
"It does feel wrong when your electric bill is more than your mortgage," West Virginia resident Felisha Chase told CNN https://t.co/yGIxqpNZM0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 19, 2021
For decades now, the coal/WV thing has been more about the cultural ideal of coal miners than actual coal miners. https://t.co/hWx2zgtjCJ
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) October 19, 2021
There are just 11,418 coal-mining jobs in West Virginia. The state is already a chemical and manufacturing hub, one primed to benefit from green technology investment.
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 16, 2021
This is entirely about Manchin's wallet and the $500k a year he gets from Enersystems, which burns waste coal. https://t.co/L3JXFYzizR
Worth saying that coal accounts for a small fraction of nonfarm employment in West Virginia. https://t.co/NtuPmagMwV
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 16, 2021
Future historians — if there are any future historians, that is, if civilization doesn't collapse — will be astonished that we let the planet burn for the sake of an industry that employs less than 3 percent of workers even in West Virginia pic.twitter.com/Rg5Fk0tQpe
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 16, 2021
After four years of former President Trump trying and failing to revive coal country, there is now an acknowledgment within the industry that more pain is coming — and new ideas are needed to blunt the damage. https://t.co/Dez6Ch0MBc
— CNN (@CNN) April 21, 2021
More early coal plant closures in Colorado. The number of western coal plants with plans to operate beyond 2030 is dwindling: https://t.co/NhtG9D9dUd
— Sammy Roth (@Sammy_Roth) February 25, 2021
Trump's failure to rewrite Obama's standards for coal-fired power plants is an implicit admission of a simple truth: Nobody is going to be building new coal-fired power plants in America. https://t.co/uXFX4NmxpR
— Dan Farber (@dfarber) January 20, 2021
President Trump pushed to weaken regulations on industry, but more coal power plants closed during his first term than in the last four years of Barack Obama’s presidency.https://t.co/Fl479f8gzG
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) October 28, 2020
Revised tweet: EPA went to extraordinary lengths to try to boost the coal industry. Wheeler himself is a former coal lobbyist. But the effort failed. Coal burning in US has tanked. As a result, Americans are breathing cleaner air today than any point in EPA's 50 yr history. https://t.co/6JPfcdF5l3
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 22, 2020
Sad! 