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To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/20/2019 11:18:54 AM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Respond to of 1573841

A noble thing to do. Coal should go the way of buggy whips.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/20/2019 11:22:39 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1573841

More Coal Plants Shut in Two Years of Trump Than in All of Obama’s First Term MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019 ewg.org WASHINGTON – For more than 50 years, Art Sullivan has worked as a coal miner, mine manager and industry consultant in the U.S. and around the world. When CNN asked him about President Trump’s promises to miners that he will save their jobs, Sullivan was blunt: “He's trying to get their votes,” said Sullivan, of Washington, Pa. “He’s lying to them.” Despite Trump’s repeated promises as a candidate and as president that he would bring back the dying coal industry, more plants have closed during his first two years in office than during former President Obama’s entire first term. “No group of Americans has been lied to more often by President Trump than coal miners and their families,” said EWG president Ken Cook. “Clinging to the promises of a President who peddles in falsehoods every day will not bring coal jobs back.” The pace of coal plant shutdowns has not slowed since the Trump administration announced the rollback of key Obama-era regulations to cap smokestack pollution from coal plants and the U.S. pullout from the Paris climate change accord. The administration has made repeal of the Obama rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants the centerpiece of its failed ploy to save the industry, arguing these efforts will reduce the economic burden on the industry and allow it to flourish once more. Trump’s dishonesty with miners started during his run for the White House. At a May 2016 campaign rally in Charleston, W.Va., Trump told the crowd: “If I win, we’re going to bring those miners back. You’re going to be so proud of your president.” “For those miners, get ready, because you’re going to be working your asses off,” candidate Trump told the crowd at the end of the rally. At a November 2018 rally in West Virginia, President Trump told the state’s coal miners: “You’re back in business.” But the following month, the federal Energy Information Administration released projections that showed coal consumption by utilities had dropped to its lowest levels since 1979. The use of coal by the U.S. power sector dropped 4 percent in 2018, to levels not seen since Jimmy Carter was president. And the EIA predicts that decline will double to 8 percent in 2019. The rapid decline of the coal industry as the leading electricity source in the U.S. is not triggered by federal regulations but by economics. Coal, as well as nuclear power, simply can’t compete with cheaper, cleaner and safer renewable energy from solar and wind. Instead of false promises, Art Sullivan told CNN, “What you need to say to coal miners is ‘We’re going to figure out a way to give you better, safer, healthier jobs.’” And statistics show that the way to do that is through renewable energy. EWG’s analysis of reports last summer from the nonprofits Clean Energy Trust and E2 found that in the Great Lakes region – including the coal mining states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio – renewable energy jobs outnumber those in coal and nuclear by more than four to one. As of 2017, an estimated 160,000 clean energy jobs had been created in the rural Midwest.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/20/2019 11:26:23 AM
From: sylvester80	2 Recommendations Recommended By Celtictrader Land Shark Respond to of 1573841

OOPS! FORMER COAL MINERS SAY TRUMP "IS LYING TO THEM" ABOUT COAL Jan 7, 2019 newsweek.com Two former coal miners questioned President Donald Trump ability to rejuvenate the industry while speaking to CNN. "He’s trying to get their [miners’] votes. He isn’t telling them the truth," mining consultant and former miner Art Sullivan said while speaking with CNN's Bill Weir in a video segment published Monday. "He's lying to them." "These are really good people. These are the people that I have spent my life working with. And if they have the truth, they will make the right decisions." Blair Zimmerman, another former miner, also pushed back against Trump's claims. "I'm an expert, he's not. When he was campaigning, I asked—I talked to his people. And I said, 'What's your plan? How are you bringing back coal?' Because it could be brought back. If these plants would come back up. And deregulating stuff will help this much," Zimmerman said, indicating a small quantity. "It's not going to help a lot." During his campaign for office, the president regularly touted his ability to restore coal jobs. But more coal power plants have been shuttered during Trump's presidency than Obama's first four years, CNN reported. With his term nearly halfway finished—and the significant job increases not yet apparent—some powerful voices have expressed doubt that Trump will be able to follow through on his promises. "I don’t know if it’s going to happen. I don’t know. It’s the government," Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray told Axios in November. "They are still studying that." About 2,000 coal jobs had been created during Trump's time in office, CNBC reported in August, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But these figures were based on estimations, and the government could not say that these jobs had actually been created.. In the past 10 years, the number of people employed by the industry has declined precipitously. In October 2008, coal employed 84,800 people. In October 2018, the last month for which final data are available, that number had dropped to 52,900, according to the BLS. And while coal exports rose in 2017, consumption and production are expected to fall in 2019. RELATED STORIES Zinke's Likely Replacement is Former Oil, Coal Lobbyist Major Coal Executive Doubts Trump Can Save Industry Pruitt's EPA Replacement Has Spotty Environment Record Trump's efforts to promote his platform have included touting coal on international platforms. At last month's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, the U.S. sponsored a panel titled "U.S. Innovative Technologies Spur Economic Dynamism," which advocated fossil fuel energy sources, rather than clean energy. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would loosen regulations on coal power plants, rolling back an Obama-era restriction that limited carbon dioxide output, according to Vox. The New Source Performance Standards, from 2015, restricted coal plant carbon dioxide emissions to 1,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour. The coal industry said such restrictions were inhibitive and expensive. Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, said the agency "would rescind excessive burdens on America’s energy providers and level the playing field" by increasing output limits to 1,900 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/20/2019 11:27:06 AM
From: Celtictrader	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573841

Would be Great

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/21/2019 5:26:36 PM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Respond to of 1573841

Happy Easter Dope

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1130900)	4/28/2019 9:33:19 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573841

*VIDEO: French Football Fans Chant, “Fck You, Macron!” as French President Sits in the Stands at French Cup Final** April 28, 2019, 5:21 pm by Jim Hoft