Yes and rightly so. Solar, Wind, etc. will never meet the needs of the nation. That's what the discussion was, not certain states.
Coal will be a viable fuel for decades to come. It is too vital to be dumped at the political demands of the environmentalists. Eventually, it will be phased out; when there is a viable replacement.
0bama wanted to stop its use by force regardless of the economic hardships millions would face. That is one of the reasons Trumps was elected.
Wind power farms are an aesthetic blight upon the landscape every bit as ugly as a horizon filled with smokestacks and cooling towers.
Unfortunately, at that time, they didn't realize that they would have to subsidize coal and nuclear: "Pay a Premium" for generated electricity if coal and nukes inventory fuel.
Ten years from now they will have to start subsidizing natural gas. And 10 years after that, they will have to start subsidizing oil.
For now it depends on the transmission lines. Texas rate payers paid for new wind lines(2014) and wind is on the verge of replacing coal.
Now they are just getting the regulatory authority for building the new interstate HVDC transmission lines so the wind states have access to other markets.