The Death of Coal

Miners Weather The Slow Burn Of Coal's Demise : NPR

Much of this pain could have been avoided had our business leaders and politicians not been so subservient at the feet of King Coal.  Anyone with eyes to see could predict the eventual decline of the coal industry.  It has been short sighted and has caused great harm to the Commonwealth and other coal producing states.  Those decisions will strand those states in poverty for more generations repeating the outrageous profiteering of previous other corporate giants that have stripped these states of natural resources and left devastation in their wakes.