Trump's rollback of pollution rules to hit coal country hard

AP ^ | 9-3-2018 | AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein

[tcrlaf]

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 rolling 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.

An analysis done by his own Environmental Protection Agency concludes that the plan would lead to a greater number of people here dying prematurely, and suffering health problems that they otherwise would not have, than elsewhere in the country, when compared to health impacts of the Obama plan.

Knotts, a coal miner for 35 years, isn't fazed when he hears that warning, a couple of days after Trump's West Virginia rally. He says the last thing people in coal country want is the government slapping down more controls on coal — and the air here in the remote West Virginia mountains seems fine to him.

[Ozark Tom]

Thank you! Haven’t watched a 3 letter network in such a long time. That appearance ticked memories from decades back-and now we know why.

[NorthMountain]

I cannot believe that this really is a serious news article from AP...

The "Associated Press" does not produce serious news articles. It produces leftist propaganda with little concern for the truth.

[AFPhys]

Most of the coal country folk would rather have a good, well-paying job, than some crazy environut’s idea of “good life”.

One single cigarette a day is more “pollution” than any effect this crazy article is talking about.

Many, many libs and welfare queens smoke many more than one.

[aces]

true much cleaner technology was implemented, I used to check emmission rata etc.