Sentences with phrase «back coal jobs»
During the presidential campaign, he pledged to bring back coal jobs and repeated those promises last week at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Yet across Appalachia, Trump and other pro-coal politicians won overwhelmingly on the promise of bringing back coal jobs.
Donald Trump has pledged to bring back coal jobs.
During the presidential campaign, Trump said environmental rules had «ravaged coal country,» but a coal industry executive said this week it was unlikely anything Trump does would bring back coal jobs.
Donald Trump's promise to bring back coal jobs is about as solid as his promise to force American companies to bring jobs back from China.
March 28, 2017 • The president on Tuesday signed an executive order with the intention of helping bring back coal jobs.
WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's promise to bring back coal jobs and climate change.
Not exact matches
West Virginia coal mining jobs are not coming back.
There are no coal mining jobs coming back,» Cuban said.
While coal jobs are unlikely to come back in droves with this or other actions the administration is taking, the move would make good on Trump's promise to rescind regulations that «unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources.»
On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to bring back coal - mining jobs and dismantle Obama's environmental policy, declaring climate change a «hoax.»
BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.
It does people in the region no good to believe that coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.
With financial backing from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Southern Research formed The Prosperity Fund in 2017 to accelerate small business growth and job creation in four Alabama counties hurt by the coal industry's downward spiral.
These cuts would scale back federal efforts to foster the development of wind and solar energy, in line with President Donald Trump's campaign promise to bring back coal industry jobs.
Mr. Chu backed away slightly from statements made in his last job, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that gasoline prices should be higher, and that coal was his «nightmare.»
While only five jobs were added by coal firms since 2016, more than 100 contract employees are back in the mining business.
Trump has also made sweeping promises about bringing back coal mining jobs.
«Coal jobs are coming back.»
«My dad was a coal miner and he lost his job back in 2008,» McGrew told SNL.
And while the acceleration in the transformation of our energy system that we desperately need is a dead letter for at least four years, the idea that coal will be an energy source for 1,000 years, as Trump has said — and that those coal jobs are coming back — is a pipe dream.
(The latest ACCCE ad highlights the affordability of coal and its ability to sustain jobs that will help «get our economy back on its feet.»)
It does people in the region no good to believe that coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.
The move is part of a broader effort by Trump to kill regulations he deems «job - killing» and make good on a campaign promise to unleash «clean, beautiful coal» and bring jobs back to the sector.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt promoted the long - awaited executive order during his appearance on ABC's This Week Sunday, as he promised that the order would «bring back manufacturing jobs across the country, coal jobs across the country» and shilled a «a pro-growth and pro-environment approach» from the White House.
Far easier to get some progress on cleaning up residential biomass, residential coal, «back yard» coal industries in China, India and elsewhere, than to stop China and India from building more coal fired power plants when they need more power to provide jobs, industry, and taxes.
«It's long past due for Congress and President Trump's administration to set aside the false promise that discarding, slowing down or weakening environmental safeguards will bring back reliable coal jobs.
For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.
Nuclear and coal proponents, however, have backed such policies as a way to keep thousands of people from losing their jobs and to promote a resilient electric grid.
And even if he could, he can't bring back the jobs because its the coal industry itself that wiped out most of those jobs through productivity gains from «strip mines and machinery,» as Nobel Prize - winning economist Paul Krugman explained in 2014.