What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. In 2010, U.S. Employment in the East (basically Appalachia) fell before 2000, ticked up until 2012, and then resumed falling. By 2012 about half of 1980 employment had already been lost, nearly all in Appalachia.
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