Nobody is denying that coal is #1...for now. But in KY/WV, it’s not coming back because most of it is played out, it’s not particularly clean and other than it’s location, its at a price disadvantage to western coal, where they can basically open-pit mine it (pretty safely, too). And, as my other post pointed out, there simply won’t be any new coal plants built with the evll spectre of a Democratic administration never more than four years away. Obama killed its future, dead. Which is just about the only campaign promise that he kept, unfortunately.
There's simply not a single true word to anything you've said. The "A" in EPA is almost entirely (de)composed of admin regs & EO - either you know how easily most of that is unrolled (or should I say "untrolled"), or you don't. Either way, FU.