The coal alignment is a bigger deal than climate change. We are SOL on climate change anyway (barring a scientific miracle)--there is no point worrying about whether one administration will or will not engage in token gestures.
But coal is bad. The coal industry costs about half a trillion in externalized damage to health and the environment annually in the US alone: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/831755.
But coal is bad. The coal industry costs about half a trillion in externalized damage to health and the environment annually in the US alone: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/831755.
And ironically, the voters in Appalachia being courted are bearing the brunt of it so people in surrounding urban areas can have cheap power: http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/blasting-appalachian-economy.