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Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump promised to end the “war on coal”—what conservatives have described as excessive environmental regulations. Limiting emissions of sulfur, mercury and carbon dioxide makes the air cleaner, but comes at a cost to miners and power plants, imposing a tax on coal. But a bigger factor in coal’s decline has been the boom in the fracking of shale gas, particularly in Appalachia.

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