Coal executive: Trump 'can't bring mining jobs back'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY DEVIN HENRY - 03/27/17 11:15 AM EDT

The head of the largest private coal firm in the U.S. says President Trump won’t be able to bring back coal industry jobs despite a push this week to deregulate fossil fuels.

Robert Murray, the founder and CEO of Murray Energy, said Trump should “temper his expectations,” given the way market forces — rather than regulations — have hurt the coal industry and reduced employment. “I suggested that he temper his expectations,” Murray told The Guardian. “Those are my exact words. He can’t bring them back.”

Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday undoing several Obama-era climate regulations, including many opposed by the coal industry.

Trump’s executive order is expected to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to undo the Clean Power Plan, a rule issued under Obama to cut electricity-sector carbon emissions.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/325891-coal-executive-trump-cant-bring-mining-jobs-back

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Robert Murray is still a POS!

[dalton99a]

4. Same asshole who claimed his miners died because of an earthquake

and not because of the thousands of safety violations

[groundloop]

2. 45* doesn't care if he can even remotely justify his actions, he's driven by hatred of Pres. Obama

If Pres. Obama's fingerprints are on it 45* will attempt to rip it apart whether or not the entire country suffers as a result.

[Botany]

3. Down deep even the coal miners know coal is done for ....

.... natural gas is cheaper, cleaner, and much easier to use then coal
for electrical production. The utility companies have spent billions
switching their power production stations from coal to gas and they
are not going back.

? For coal miners; Would you pay $3.50 a gallon for gas for your pick up
truck @ one station or $1.75 a gallon @ another station across the street?

[Beakybird]

5. He can't bring back jobs, but he can bring back pollution

[dalton99a]

7. Definitely.

[Botany]

10. But he can bring back more A.M.D.. (acid mine drainage)

[Moostache]

6. The spite this tiny-handed, little orange man has in boundless...

His entire raison d'etre is to attack and befoul the Obama legacy programs. Here's hoping his failures mount up and that the bitterness in his soul consumes him...

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[gopiscrap]

9. that motherfucker Murray belongs in jail

[elleng]

11. Right, no one can,

and the Democrats need a positive way to address the related issues.

How about something like this? A COMPLETE TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY—AND AN END TO OUR RELIANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS BY 2050

https://martinomalley.com/climate/agenda/

Anyone interested?

[Turbineguy]

12. It was never the intention

the intention was to bamboozle people into voting for him.

And it worked.

[Doreen]

13. After they mine the coal who do they sell it to?

Are there enough things that is used with coal to be able to sell enough to pay the miners and for all of the equipment used and still make a profit? It seems unless the clean air products we have out there were made illegal it just would not work. I may be wrong and am not understanding it but it was just a thought.