The term “war on coal” will catch on when electricity rates skyrocket and/or we have a blackout caused by lack of generating capacity due to coal powerplants closed by regulatory fiat. It’s coming.
Its not by fiat, it is because of the 2007 SCOTUS decision on New Source Review.
And the coal plants that are being closed are the older, smaller, dirty plants. The larger, younger coal plants are being retrofitted.
As for the new plants, there are some new coal plants being built, but because natural gas is so cheap, most of the new capacity being added is nat gas plants.
So the consensus solution is to export natural gas which will raise the price of nat gas so that coal, nukes, wind, and solar will be more competitive.