The problem the coal industry has is the regulations passed in the first 2 years of Obama!!! Partisan insanity!!! Emotion driven laws instead of looking at reality. The left creates regulations based on emotional beliefs. Emotion trumps facts with progressives at all times.Misty » 04 Aug 2017 3:52 pm » wrote: According to the Forbes article I cited, the U.S. Department of Energy says that natural gas could supply as much as half of all electric generation in two decades, up from 34% today.
Coal, meanwhile, comprised half of the nation’s electric generation portfolio in 2007 and today it is less than 34%.
Does that sound to you like an industry on the rise Jackass?
Here is another Forbes article on the same subject from 2016.