Battle lines drawn over coal at U.N. climate talks

“We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal,” he said. “It’s just been announced that a second, brand-new coal mine, where they’re going to take out clean coal — meaning, they’re taking out coal. They’re going to clean it— is opening in the state of Pennsylvania, the second one.”

According to Trump, a man who knows the best words and also claims that he's really, really smart, coal can be cleaned.

In the US, about 30 of the 3,000+ counties have economies that historically have had a dependence on coal.

But the main reason Trump is pushing coal is not to create jobs for coal miners and businesses in these depressed areas, it's because some of the US hydrocarbon oligarchs, roughly .01% of the population, can get even richer and more powerful by selling the lie there's such a thing as 'clean coal'.

What's this obsession with coal from the US ? Why clean coal when there are energy sources even cleaner ? What's wrong with wind or solar ? Why so stubborn ?

Moderator : 6th paragraph from the end : a billion dollars=900,000,000 euros or one million dollars=900,000 euros ?

Solar power, wind farms, geothermal energy, hydroelectrics, tidal power, biomass energy,

Why aren't these being promoted and invested in more?

Coal in the US is mostly about buying votes and not much else.

I have solar, use as much as I want and even make a profit. Why not everyone.

"Solar power, wind farms, geothermal energy, hydroelectrics, tidal power, biomass energy,

Why aren't these being promoted and invested in more?"

Those things sound very liberal thus the Republicans must do the opposite, very sad reality indeed

The reason coal is so popular is that China, India, and Pakistan have a lot of the stuff and are using it a lot. Only China seems to be moving away from the stuff. But with they huge population they'll need coal for a while still.

Coal in the US is mostly about buying votes and not much else.

Yeah, go ahead and say that to the people that love in coal countries and depend on their livelihoods for it and I want to be there next to when you do.

If Democrats continue to think like that they will lose more votes then they already have in those States that depend on it.

And the US continues its steps backwards as the rest of the world moves on without them. The US under Trump has proven it's a leader of nothing but a downward dive, and they are actually "Making China Great (again)". Well done, Trump!

bass4funk: "If Democrats continue to think like that they will lose more votes then they already have in those States that depend on it."

Like Virginia?

Like Virginia?

Unlike Virginia that's a blue state and where Trump lost by 5 percentage points during the campaign. Start turning the Red States Blue and you got my attention. Going back to bed.

the people that love in coal countries and depend on their livelihoods

And? Why not just send them your own money instead of our tax dollars propping up a dead industry just so people can keep their jobs.

bass4funk: "Unlike Virginia that's a blue state and where Trump lost by 5 percentage points during the campaign. Start turning the Red States Blue and you got my attention. Going back to bed."

Well, obviously you got up to check and reply to this and various threads. They won in far more than Virginia the other day too, by the way, which more than answered your question and was a definitive statement on Trump's failures and failed policies. Boom.