With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵

— Joseph D. Ortiz (@earthsciinfo.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T21:55:00.801Z

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T15:16:07.943Z

👇World's fifth largest economy quits #coal:www.latimes.com/environment/…

— John Vaillant (@johnvaillant.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T14:41:33.497Z

"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers" goes out the window when they become one of the losers.

— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2025-10-05T23:36:09.516Z

Commentary by Jason Bailey @kypolicy.bsky.social Will the coalfields ‘get over’ losing hospitals miners fought to create? Which side will Congress be on?kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/27/w…

— Kentucky Lantern (@kentuckylantern.com) 2025-06-27T19:38:33.427Z

Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-06-19T21:35:07.536415Z

Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. http://www.msha.gov/notice-stake…

— Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T15:57:54.227Z

I’ve been documenting coal miners’ fight against black lung and attempts to push through these new regulations for the past several years. My @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social investigation into the crisis provides some background: inthesetimes.com/article/coal…

— Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T16:02:41.402Z

Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry … and you thought tariffs were dumb… http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c…

— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T02:07:23.669Z

At his coal promotion event at the White House, Trump just said he will use the major law firms he bullied into providing $150 million+ in free legal services to fight state and local government regulations on coal pollution.

— Scott Waldman (@scottpwaldman.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T20:24:34.543Z

This is Scott – a CDC researcher working to help screen coal miners for black lung. His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.

— Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T22:35:11.546Z

President Trump signs executive orders to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, relaxing restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports in what the White House said is an effort to meet the energy needs of artificial intelligence data centers.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-08T21:30:06Z

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T21:39:03.670Z

I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T20:49:37.011Z