Dismantling the Clean Power Plan Will Not Save Coal Jobs and Trump Knows It

Coal isn't dying because of environmental regulations.by Katie Herzog George Frey/Getty Images
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that agency plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP), President Obama's signature climate change regulation.“The war on coal is over,” Pruitt said from Hazard, Kentucky, in the heart of coal country. “Tomorrow in Washington, D.C., I will be signing a proposed rule to roll back the Clean Power Plan."Pruitt—who, as Oklahoma attorne