Coal production in Appalachia emits 1 million tons a year of potent greenhouse gas. It isn't CO2.

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3. When Trump told the coal miners, their families, friends, and supporters that he was going to ...

... "bring back coal" he knew he was lying and so did > 85% of the coal people too. Natural
gas does produce greenhouse gases, fracking is hard on the environment, and many of the
natural gas producers robbed the land owners where the gas was produced of billions of $s
for "post production costs" but it is so much cheaper, cleaner, easier to use, with less waste
products, and doesn't kill people like coal does. The utility industries have spent 10s of billions
of $s flipping their plants from coal to gas and they are not going back. I am looking forward to
seeing those gas fired electric plants starting to shut down too.

Going to school in S.E. Ohio and being familiar with Appalachia and its culture coal is now
and will be seen for many years as a good thing to many of the people who live there.