Trump On Coal: Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie . . .

[hatrack]

As President Trump announced on Thursday that the U.S. would leave the Paris climate agreement, he repeatedly expressed unwavering support for the coal mining industry. Boosting coal production, bringing back coals jobs, and killing federal climate change programs have been among his top priorities since he took office. “The mines are starting to open up, having a big opening in two weeks, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, so many places,” Trump said in his Rose Garden speech. “A big opening of a brand new mine. It’s unheard of.”

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The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal-fired electric power plants for utilities. That’s the case for the coal mines in the three states Trump cited.

Pennsylvania will soon see the opening of the Acosta Deep Mine near Somerset, Penn., which will produce 375,000 tons of metallurgical coal annually and employ 70 workers, according to the Associated Press. By comparison, the country’s largest coal mines produce more than 100 million tons of coal each year. Acosta’s operator, Corsa Coal, could not be reached for comment. Four additional small metallurgical mines employing about 375 workers were set to reopen last year in West Virginia, according to local news reports.

In Ohio, the state has granted permits to mine for coal at new and existing sites ranging from less than 20 acres to more than 350. The state granted three companies coal mining permits at nine sites throughout the state since February 2016. One of the permits was issued this year. A spokesman for the Ohio Coal Association said he was unaware of how many mines might open or close in the state this year. The National Mining Association, which tracks coal mine openings and closures, declined to provide opening and closure data.

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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/fact-checking-trump-coal-mines-prospects-bleak-21510

[LuckyLib]

1. It's what he does. Even he admits republicans are idiots. He can say whatever he wants.

They have no critical thinking skills.

[Canoe52]

2. His base believes it, for now anyway...