What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. By 2012 about half of 1980 employment had already been lost, nearly all in Appalachia.
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