Trump to sign executive order repealing climate change regulations

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Does he not realize that every last coal miner deserves to lose their livelihood?

Of course the best thing to help them would be to ban fracking.

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The bad thing about trump's policy is its fundamental deceit. Quite aside from the fact that his plan to 'save' the industry involves removing everything that people liked about the jobs in the first place (namely it was a solid, largely secure paycheque for working class individuals with little education) and glossing over the fact that industry, largely wishing to shed obligations like cleaning up, pensions and dealing with black lung, are cheerfully tossing them away; the lack of a transition plan means that all coal communities are still entirely at the mercy of market forces.

All deep coal mines and coal plants in the country are at a very real risk of closing with very little forewarning, and if the government fails to prepare for this, you're going to see more and more localised recessions as coal mines and plants shutter with no plan.

Not that the democrats are blameless tbh, but that was more their callous advertising and lack of empathy than anything else. I think most thinking people of Appalachia know that the GOP has no substantial ideas, and the ideas they have are from the minds of hated individuals like Ross, Murray and Blankenship. But at least trump and his ilk make an effort to empathise.