Trump Promised a Coal Comeback But America’s Miners Need an Energy Revolution

  • Date: 25-Aug-2020
  • Source: Bloomberg
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:UAE
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Trump Promised a Coal Comeback But America’s Miners Need an Energy Revolution

Bobby Stevens's backup plan for his backup plan encountered an obstacle a few months ago. In March the coronavirus pandemic closed the Kentucky government building where he was set to take his commercial driver's license test, which he started studying for after he got dismissed by his second coal company in a year, where he'd started working after the first one went bankrupt.The bankruptcy of coal giant Blackjewel LLC, which terminated Stevens and about 1,700 other workers in four states, made international news last summer when some of them blocked railroad tracks in Harlan County, Ky., over unpaid wages. It didn't take long for Stevens's next