“Coal is coming back! Trump brought back coal jobs!”

What You Say

EIA data shows U.S. coal production and mining employment have declined for over a decade — cheap natural gas and renewables outcompete coal on cost, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. 'War on coal' rhetoric didn't reverse market physics. Promising coal revival to struggling communities without transition plans is cruelty dressed as nostalgia. Real economic policy invests in reclamation, broadband, and clean-energy jobs where mines already closed.