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‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal (www.nytimes.com)
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The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

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[-] WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago

It amazes me how much subsidy non renewable energies are able to obtain. The entrenched corruption is astounding…

[-] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

In Germany, >100k jobs in solar were killed to save ~10k in coal. We were world leaders ffs. Danke Merkel.

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