Sentences with phrase «coal jobs»

For coal miners that reasoning was clear: He'd promised to bring back coal jobs.

There are fewer coal jobs today than there were last year, and there will be fewer still next year.

But there are still twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs in the US.

So I don't think that you necessarily have to net out renewable jobs versus lost coal jobs.

With the county's economy reeling from the loss of coal jobs, there is hope that the mountainous area's natural beauty, with its network of all - terrain vehicle trails, could be exploited to attract tourists.

In practice, the subsidies meant some coal companies paid no state taxes, and actually received significant cash handouts, even as coal jobs declined.

Waiting for coal jobs?

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.»

Later today the Trump Administration will propose ripping up climate legislation to save dirty coal jobs at the same time as California burns out of control from wildfires, made worse by climate change.

Moreover, many future coal jobs will likely be automated, rather than employ people in coal country, Robert Godby, an energy economist at the University of Wyoming, told The New York Times.

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.

«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.

In terms of jobs, the carbon revenue would be over $ 300k per coal job.

Promises from President Donald Trump to repeal the Clean Power Plan and restore coal jobs held weight in Wyoming.

The states with the most coal jobs (PDF) are West Virginia and Kentucky, followed by Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia, Ohio and Texas.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's promise to bring back coal jobs and climate change.

The last time Kentucky had so few coal jobs was 1898, when they averaged 6,399, the report said.

Solar jobs do pay better than «average,» but not better than coal jobs.

Eastern Kentucky lost 21.6 percent of its coal jobs during the quarter, while the drop in the state's western coalfield was 12.2 percent.

Full article: 1,500 coal jobs lost in 1st quarter; total is lowest in 118 years

It does people in the region no good to believe that coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.

Hope theRump is held accountable for all the coal jobs he created... what better way to keep folks down than send them underground to feed more soot into the air we breathe... while telling them they are just lucky to have any job.

At the same time, coal jobs are up slightly.

Boosting coal production, bringing back coals jobs, and killing federal climate change programs have been among his top priorities since he took office.

March 28, 2017 • The president on Tuesday signed an executive order with the intention of helping bring back coal jobs.

In addition to planning for an Appalachian future with fewer and fewer coal jobs, the coalition is seeking more permanent protections and concrete commitments for what the agencies can accomplish by the end of 2016.

The coal jobs have just changed from a job you could rely on to a job that could disappear any minute.

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.

When the president announced his intent to abandon the Clean Power Plan this spring and then withdraw from the Paris agreement this summer, one of the biggest reasons cited was to protect the coal jobs sustaining communities in places like Appalachia.

«Coal jobs are coming back.»

This shrinking carbon footprint highlights the challenges Trump faces in making good on his promise to bring back coal jobs and underscores the determination of states and power companies alike to transition to gas and renewables.

Really caring for the Pittsburgh's workers may imply we take onto account the facts that coal jobs won't cone back, and that most energy jobs are in the renewables:

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.

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.

Donald Trump has pledged to bring back coal jobs.

Jobs in electric generation do not include fuel jobs, so for example, the coal jobs in the two charts have to be added together to get total employment.

Yet across Appalachia, Trump and other pro-coal politicians won overwhelmingly on the promise of bringing back coal jobs.

While it is unlikely that President Trump can completely reverse the steady decline in coal jobs, which has taken place over decades, he can instruct his Interior Secretary to end Jewell's lease moratorium.

He and his wife have good - paying jobs in the coal industry, but both the family's coal jobs and their private businesses in coal country were at risk from the Clean Power Plan.

This claim was false: As of mid-2017, only about 1,200 coal jobs had been created.

During the presidential campaign, he pledged to bring back coal jobs and repeated those promises last week at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky.