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While Trump tries to bring back coal, the UK goes coal-free

Trump administration appears dead-set on propping up a dying dirty industry

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A reclaimer places coal in stockpiles at the coal port in Newcastle, Australia. File photo: Reuters

Oscar Reyes | FPIF
When you’re in a hole, it’s usually best to stop digging. But when President Trump told supporters at his 100th day rally in Pennsylvania that “we are putting our coal miners back to work,” he just burrowed deeper into the bed of administration lies on energy.

The truth of the matter is that climate regulations aren’t a “war on coal,” and no amount of presidential photo-ops will bring mining jobs back. A recent report from the Center for Global Energy clearly shows why.

The demand for U.S. coal has collapsed in the past six years, it explains, following big improvements in energy