Coal miners join climate activists to back Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan
Story Date: 4/21/2021

 

Source: Matt Egan, CNN, 4/20/21

Coal country is in free fall and is pleading for help from Washington. That's why the largest union in one of the dirtiest industries is broadly backing President Joe Biden's $2 trillion green infrastructure package -- an ambitious plan that has also won support from climate activists. "Anybody who would not accept jobs where jobs are desperately needed is making a horrendous mistake," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, the country's largest mine workers union, told CNN Business on Tuesday.

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