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[Episode #198] – The Coal Trap

The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

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The War on Coal and the Clean Power Plan

West Virginia's lost decade was all about the war on coal. It was blaming everything on Obama and Obama's job killing EPA, he says. That was what our politicians were telling the citizens of West Virginia throughout that 10-year period. And it was just completely ignored, the overwhelming market forces in terms of low-cost natural gas,. Low-cost wind and solar really causing the demise of the coal industry.

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