Trump did deregulate coal. Coal may still be struggling from the Damage Obama caused. New tech is on the way to inexpensively clean smokestack emissions, which should help.
Trump has barely touched on tariffs. Trump drove a lot of corporate decisions by jawboning tariffs. I believe he will come through.
Very true.
It is a big job to restart a mine that has been shut down.
And then they have to reacquire the lost customer base.
When Obama shut the mines down many customers had to find alternative sources of energy.
His actions forced many to switch from coal to other types of power and to install equipment to use it.
So many former coal customers have been permanently lost.