A new study confirms what nearly every energy analyst (and even coal executives) have already said: President Donald Trump’s plan to bring back mining jobs won’t work.
The report, written by a team at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Center on Global Energy Policy, concludes that rolling back environmental regulations, as Trump has done, would only have a minor impact on coal’s fortunes.
Of the 10 major regulations targeted by the Trump team, only four have actually been implemented. And those regulations, which opponents say are the primary reason for coal’s decline, played a small role compared to other forces.
