Trump’s Executive Order Won’t Save Coal Mining Jobs
- President set to unveil measures to help coal industry Tuesday
- Reviving coal demand is different from reviving coal jobs
Trump Signs Executive Order on Energy Independence
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President Donald Trump is taking bold steps to boost the declining coal industry, but the moves won’t restore many of the jobs lost by coal miners in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania who helped the president win his job in the White House.
Trump will sign an order Tuesday to dismantle the very foundations of his predecessor’s government-wide effort to combat climate change, according to details provided to Bloomberg News. It will resume the sale of coal from federal land, lift carbon dioxide limits on power plants and end Obama-era mandates that agencies consider global warming in a broad range of decisions.