50 US coal power plants shut under Trump
Fifty coal-fired power plants have shut in the United States since President Donald Trump came to office two years ago, an environmental organization said Thursday. The Sierra Club counted 50 ...
Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his record on
Facts First: As of August, 5,300 coal mining jobs had been lost under Trump. (As of February, it was a loss of 1,000.) (As of February, it was a loss of 1,000.) And the industry generally ...
Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his …
As of the most recent data, from August, 237,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost under Trump. Coal ... Facts First: As …
US coal use is rebounding under Biden like it never did with …
In 2021, the U.S. utilities are poised to burn 536.9 million short tons of coal, up from 436.5 million in 2020, the Energy Information Administration forecasts. Coal from …
Coal mining: Has Donald Trump delivered on his promise …
Preliminary figures for 2018 show a slight increase, with a net gain of 1,300 coal mining jobs during Trump's presidency. Coal production has risen slightly, about 6% last year, from 728 million ...
Trump's Numbers October 2019 Update
But as of Oct. 10, 2019, the number had dropped back below 1.08 million — 2,789 fewer than on Jan. 20, 2017, the day Trump took office. In percentage terms, the drop is only 0.26% — barely one ...
Five charts that show why Trump can't deliver on his coal …
No one can deny the problems in the coal industry that Trump claims he will address. Coal production has plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1980s. The average number of employees at coal ...
Interior reverses Trump coal mining oversight rule
Scott Olson/AFP via Getty Images. The Interior Department unveiled a final rule Thursday that reverses prior Trump administration policy and allows coal communities to more easily appeal to the ...
Trump's Numbers January 2020 Update
Growth under Trump has averaged far less than the 4% to 6% per year that he promised ... the increase under Trump would be $1,638, or 2.7%. ... Coal Mining Jobs — A s a candidate, Trump promised ...
Trump promised to bring back coal to Appalachia. Has he?
0:04. 0:50. NEW LEXINGTON — Ron Baker would go back underground tomorrow if he could. If Peabody Energy reopened the Sunnyhill coal mine he worked at for more than a decade in the 1970s and '80s ...
Trump's Numbers October 2018 Update
A total of 35,700 coal mining jobs disappeared during the Obama years, but as of September, only 1,900 of them had come back under Trump, according to BLS figures. That's 5.3 percent of the coal ...
Analysing Trump's "amazing results" in the US coal mining industry
From a regulatory perspective, Trump's dismantling of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would have levied strict emissions limits on coal and gas-burning power plants, has been pointedly connected to saving jobs in the coal industry, mining included, by improving the lot of the coal power industry and raising …
Joe Biden has approved more oil drilling. Why? And does it …
Drilling approvals have increased since Biden took office. His administration is granting applications for permits to drill on public and trial lands at a pace faster than the Trump administration ...
'My friends were lied to': will coalminers stand by …
But while Appalachia will largely stick with Trump in 2020, more coal capacity has been retired under Trump than during Obama's second term. "Coal's not back," as Cecil Roberts, president ...
Trump's Numbers July 2020 Update
On an adjusted basis, the increase under Trump would be $1,638, or 2.7%. ... As of June, there were 7,100 fewer coal mining jobs than when Trump took office, …
Coal Jobs Have Gone Up Under Trump, But Not Because Of …
Just last month, the 4 West Mine in southwestern Pennsylvania announced it will shut down, meaning jobs will disappear for about 400 workers. That's far more than …
Increased automation guarantees a bleak outlook for Trump
Between 1980 and 2015, underground mining's share of total coal production dropped from 41–35 percent, while surface mining production increased from 59–65 percent.
Coal: How Has It Fared Under Trump?
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Trump's Numbers April 2020 Update
As of March, there were 1,100 fewer coal mining jobs than when Trump took office, according to BLS figures. That's a decline of 2.2%. ... The federal debt has increased by $3.8 trillion under ...
A look at how Trump's moves on coal will affect the industry
Under the moratorium, the Obama administration was considering raising royalty rates as much as 50 percent. Trump has put that idea on hold. On Feb. 16, the new president overturned a rule that blocked coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams, a low-cost disposal method used in mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
Under Trump, the jobs boom has finally reached blue-collar …
Among the industries Trump has targeted most for revival, evidence is mixed that his policies have helped. Coal mining added about a thousand jobs in the year ending in July, according to the ...
Trump's Steel Industry Claims
To hear President Donald Trump tell the story of the U.S. steel industry, it went from "dead" or "going out of business" to "thriving" all because of the 25% tariffs on imported steel ...
Coal mining jobs are holding steady under Trump's watch
Coal miners have kept employment steady at about 51,000 to 53,000 positions during President Donald Trump's first two years in office. A surge in U.S. exports has offset the continued closure of ...
Can President Trump keep his promises to coal country?
From 2011 to 2015, the coal mining industry lost more than 26,000 jobs, one of the reasons why many miners saw Trump's election as a moment of hope.
Trump's Numbers January 2019 Update
The number rose by 473,000 between Trump's inauguration and December. That followed a net decrease of 192,000 under Obama. The increase since January 2017 amounts to 3.8 percent, compared with ...
Coal Jobs Have Gone Up Under Trump, But Not Because Of …
The number of U.S. coal jobs rose slightly during the president's first year in office. But energy analysts credit short-term market forces and say they won't stop long-term decline.
US coal jobs down 24% from the start of Trump
The sharp rise in that market has since retreated and languished as coal employment began to decline rapidly again in 2019. One company, Paringa Resources Ltd., did tout opening the first new …
Interior reverses Trump coal mining oversight rule
The Interior Department unveiled a final rule Thursday that reverses prior Trump administration policy and allows coal communities to more easily appeal to the …
Trump's Numbers July 2019 Update
But as of July 10, 2019, the number had dropped back below 1.08 million — 1,030 fewer than on Jan. 20, 2017, the day Trump took office. In percentage terms, the drop is just under one-tenth of 1 ...
States try again to block coal sales that Trump revived
Under Trump, the Department of Interior lifted a 2016 moratorium on federal coal sales and concluded they have limited environmental impacts. ... Coal mining companies saw demand for the fuel drop dramatically over the past decade due to competition from natural gas and renewable fuel sources. Trump has sought to prop the …