Trump’s pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard
Story Date: 9/4/2018

 

Source: FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 9/3/18

It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan to roll back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.
Trump left one thing out of his remarks, though: northern West Virginia coal country will be ground zero for increased deaths and illnesses from the rollback on regulation of harmful emission from the nation’s coal power plants.

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