{"id":29899,"date":"2020-07-31T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29899"},"modified":"2020-07-31T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:28:22","slug":"campaign-promises-retrospective-coal-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/31\/campaign-promises-retrospective-coal-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Promises Retrospective: Coal, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an update on candidate Trump&#8217;s promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/15\/campaign-promises-retrospective-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">renew the coal mining and coal-fired power industries<\/a>, the latest information from President Trump&#8217;s Administration is, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/us-energy-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">negative<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?resize=800%2C578&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?w=919&amp;ssl=1 919w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?resize=768%2C555&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?resize=208%2C150&amp;ssl=1 208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eia-us-energy-consumption-2019.jpg?resize=150%2C108&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018, coal supplied <strong>13%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This continues to be good news for folks in general, but bad news for coal industry workers. Fortunately, retraining is certainly possible, and there are jobs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/7\/29\/1964877\/-Trump-is-still-digging-coal-he-s-digging-its-grave-as-the-industry-collapses-despite-deregulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Sumner post<\/a> on <em><strong>The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum<\/em>: <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2020\/07\/30\/biden-calls-100-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-heres-how-far-we-have-go\/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">different way<\/a> of looking at the above:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29910\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?resize=800%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C98&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?resize=768%2C251&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?resize=250%2C82&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WaPo-us-energy-2019.jpg?resize=150%2C49&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to reconcile that Coal at 23%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an update on candidate Trump&#8217;s promise to renew the coal mining and coal-fired power industries, the latest information from President Trump&#8217;s Administration is, well, negative: 2018, coal supplied 13%. This continues to be good news for folks in general, but bad news for coal industry workers. Fortunately, retraining is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/31\/campaign-promises-retrospective-coal-ctd-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29911,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions\/29911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}