This is where I depart from some of the Big Green shibboleths about "just transition." We are spending billions and jeopardizing the lives of millions on this planet to maintain not just the economic well-being, but gender status of a shockingly small number of Gen X men.
Megan Wachspress
No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").
Max Kennerly
President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel
President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel.
