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Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff by dragontamer on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:27PM (#13487613)
> These jobs are not coming back, period.

Yeah, but that's not a winning message to the Coal Miners. Trump's fake promises won them over.

Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff by nyxtom on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:43PM (#13488516)
These jobs might actually come back, but the cost for upgrading coal plants to use modern techniques like chemical looping make it a bit unviable at the moment (or maybe not I'm not sure). If we ever got a carbon tax in place, then the market could sort itself out in that regard.