DRAKESBORO, Ky. — President Donald Trump tried to stop it from happening. The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, did too.
When coal-burning plants close, coal mining loses its best customer. Since 2010, 500 coal-burning units, or boilers, at power plants have been shut down and nearly half the nation's coal mines have closed. No U.S. energy company, big or small, is building a new coal-burning plant. Story continues“I saw the decision to proceed with the retirement of Paradise ... as a sign that both the markets and the American people have turned so strongly away from coal," said Mary Anne Hitt, who leads the Sierra Club's campaign to end the use of coal.
Rogers agrees. He calls the former president a “genius in cutting off the head of the coal industry.”President Trump has tried to change that, rolling back environmental regulations for the industry and taking other actions included on a wish list that one of his major donors, Bob Murray, sent him shortly after his inauguration.
This is why he wanted to sell part of TVA to a private company.
You mean the top two Republicans don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground? Shocking.