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‘I don’t care to listen to him anymore’: Coal miners turn their backs on
Trump over failed promises
Published 19 hours ago on October 5, 2020By Tom Boggioni
米国の石炭産業の復活を約束したトランプ大統領の言葉が生かされず、石炭産業従事者達は
「もう彼の言うことは聞く気もない」とトランプに背を向ける

During his 2016 campaign, the president made revitalizing the coal industry a
large part of his populist appeal in the all-important Rust Belt, even though
coal has been displaced by natural gas in recent years with Foreign Policy
reporting, “Natural gas is today the biggest single source of fuel for America’s
power plants.”

Nonetheless, the president pushed coal (“Trump digs coal”) while claiming,
“We’re going to put our miners back to work.”

As the Times notes, the president opened the doors to coal industry insiders to
join his administration, reporting, “Despite Mr. Trump stocking his administration
with coal-industry executives and lobbyists, taking big donations from the
industry, rolling back environmental regulations and intervening directly in cases
like the Arizona power plant and mine, coal’s decline has only accelerated in
recent years.”

That failure has not gone unnoticed by the workers who voted for Trump.
“Arizona is now an electoral battleground for Mr. Trump. But the economic trauma
from coal’s rapid collapse extends to Kentucky and other coal-mining states.
After the shutdown of coal-fueled power producers like the Paradise Fossil Plant
in western Kentucky, the Genesis Mine in Centertown, Ky., laid off its 250 workers
in late February.”