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Actually the goal by Trump is to make it less clean than in 08. Appalachia and the Rust Belt said the reason they were destitute was Obama's "war on coal". Now this is where this gets really good:
"President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating funding for economic development programs supporting laid-off coal miners and others in Appalachia, stirring fears in a region that supported him of another letdown on the heels of the coal industry’s collapse.
Trump seeks to ax Appalachia economic programs, causing worry in coal country
Trump gave them what they wanted, they get to pollute now. No need for a single cent to help them, they can try to bring coal back and the rest of the country can move on without them. They get what they voted for and Trump can ax the programs Obama wanted to help them with.
ZERO PITY for Appalachia. Next we need to make every Disability recipient in Appalachia requalify.
We need to prop up other dead/dying industries like whale oil and incandescent light bulbs too. Pruitt needs to go back to his fracked over and earthquake ravaged Oklahoma, never to be seen again.
Obama's "legacy" was nothing more than a paper tiger.
Trump is shredding it daily.
As for "dying", obviously you know nothing about base load power generation. We will still be burning coal long long after you and I are gone. There is a 300 year supply of energy there. It won't be ignored.
Good! Trump is just doing what he said he would do. Remove NEEDLESS regulations. We still have the overbearing, and much too broadly interpreted Clean Air, and Water Act. We need less regulation, and lower taxes, or we will remain uncompetitive in the world economy.
You forgot that we all need to also learn to work for far less money..............
Obama's "legacy" was nothing more than a paper tiger.
Trump is shredding it daily.
As for "dying", obviously you know nothing about base load power generation. We will still be burning coal long long after you and I are gone. There is a 300 year supply of energy there. It won't be ignored.
Like I said, no one is disputing whether or not coal will totally vanish for purposes of power generation, but what levels will look like in future.
(remember Trump changed the rule to allow coal ash to be dumped in rivers..)
You really need to research what you are talking about. That was another last minute one size fits all Obama regulation that never went into effect. Rescinding it had no affect on existing laws at both the Federal and state levels. That reg was sop broad the onlt the way it could be interpreted was to end coal mining in many areas, that's why it got the axe.
It's to provide distraction. Bottom line is Trump chose an anti-EPA guy to run the EPA so he could run it into the ground. The Republican Party is no fan of the environment. Coal is just the beginning. Scott Pruitt is getting himself a "secrecy booth" so he can conduct very private calls. Plus he has an 18 man security team. This is not what an EPA head typically needs oh...ever. He is likely meeting with the nation's largest polluters bringing bags of money to make pollution great again. There was a Republican blogger who when he heard that Scott Pruitt was brought in to destroy the EPA said "I practically need to smoke a cigarette". Republicans absolutely hate the environment.
Were you making complaints about the EPA under Obama when it was shown they were colluding with environmental groups?
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