So far, he's talked about more coal miners. Does that even make sense?
Of course not, cheap natural gas has killed the coal industry. But Trumpsters have never cared about facts!
If that's true then why regulate it out of business? makes no sense.
Coal was dying long before any emission regulations went into effect, you can thank fracking for that. Regulations simply hasten the conversion from the older least efficient coal fired plants to cheaper cleaner natural gas, which had already begun when Natural Gas prices fell dramatically. Newer more efficient coal fired plants are not significantly affected by the new rules which are slowly phased in, and when carbon capture systems are perfected coal will probably rebound.
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Fact-checking Obama's rules on carbon and coal plants
Republican in the race, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, went too far on a couple counts.
Capito claims the EPA’s June regulations mean "you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."
Taken literally, this is quite false. The rules don’t keep plants from burning coal.
The EPA proposal sets a different carbon reduction threshold for each state based on feasibility, cost and current pollution levels, to help achieve a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions nationally by 2030.
To reach their respective goals, each state can choose from a multitude of options, including regional cap and trade networks, investments in renewable energy and building smart grid technology.
And, yes, they could phase out some existing coal plants.
Experts noted, though, that the goals are phased in gradually and can be met without stopping many plants from burning coal, even in states heavily reliant on fossil fuels.
"We’re going to see a shakeout of older and smaller coal plants, the least efficient ones anyway," said Dallas Burtraw, associate director of the Resources for the Future Center for Climate and Electricity Policy, an energy think tank funded by government, nonprofits and energy companies. "The ones that remain will have a high level of environmental controls and will run relatively efficiently with a high utilization rate."
As for Capito’s claim that regulations will stop existing plants from burning coal, we rated the statement
False.