Commentary: Photo Ops with Coal Miners Offer No Substitute for Fact-Based Climate Policy

The sweeping attack on climate action that President Trump demanded in his executive order is likely to prove but short-lived relief for coal miners who cheered him at the EPA

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Photograph of President Trump shaking hand of hard-hat-wearing coal miner
Buyer Beware: President Trump's policies support both coal and natural gas, coal's economic nemesis.
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