The Guardian: How Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival

In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies, with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience. But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes. Jacob Hannah, coal company CEO, “It was a once-in-a-generation cash injection designed to prioritize extraction-based communities as part of the energy transition. So to have it all taken away is deeply damaging and demoralizing.” Read ON.