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Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them

  • Written by Mark Partridge, Professor of Rural-Urban Policy, The Ohio State University
imageTVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee, site of a 1.1 billion gallon spill of coal ash slurry in 2008, photographed on March 28, 2012.Appalachian Voices, CC BY

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to bring jobs and prosperity to communities that rely on the coal...

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