Coalblog: Stop Digging the Regulatory Hole Deeper – NMA’s three-step guide for the candidates
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In a recent piece, Luke Popovich of NMA appeals to our presidential candidates: This is an open letter to Mr. Trump and Ms. Clinton.
If there’s any good news for coal these days, it’s that you both have promised relief for coal communities hit hard by market forces and the president’s regulations. Donald Trump, you say you’ll put coal miners back to work. Hillary Clinton, you pledged to put coal communities back on their feet.
The upheaval underway in the power sector, and the depth and duration of the regulatory assault on an industry struggling with market competition, will not make either promise easy to keep—even assuming the sincerest of intentions. In the past five years, coal fields have lost more than 67,000 jobs paying an average of $83,700 annually with good benefits.
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