More people work in nail salons, bowling alleys, or Arbys than mine coal.
About 53,000 people work in coal mining. 260,000 people work in the solar power industry.
Coal is the country’s leading source of carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.
The American Lung Association believes that the effects of coal pollution kill about 7,500 American a year.
In 2012 the U.S.had 580 coal-fired power plants producing 45% of the nation’s electricity generation. Today there are fewer than 350 coal plants responsible for about 30% for the country’s electricity.
Since the Trump presidency, about 1,300 new coal jobs have been created.
My source was “The decline of the coal industry,” an article in The Week, (September 21, 2018), p. 11.
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