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‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

The 2022 cash injection came through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s landmark climate and infrastructure legislation, and was designed to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities over the long haul.

It was the largest investment in Appalachia since the 1960s’ “war on poverty” under Lyndon Johnson.

but like many blue-collar regions is now part of the loyal Maga base who believed Trump when he pledged to resuscitate coal country and put American first.

Trump has won big in West Virginia in the past three general elections, securing every county in 2024 with an average of 70% of the vote – the highest percentage any party has won in the state’s history. His vote share was even larger in rural counties including Clay and Wayne, which Huntington straddles.

So you'd expect anger at Trump but you'd be wrong !

yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This has nothing whatsoever to do with clean coal.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Nothing has anything to do with clean coal because it doesn't exist. Clean coal was a Republican talking point, but was turned into cleaning up coal dependant places. It means two different things to people on different sides.