Experts have said that Donald Trump’s promises to revive coal production are unrealistic.
A prominent coal executive expressed doubt that President Donald Trump could revive the industry.
„I don’t know if it’s going to happen,“ Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray told Axios on Thursday. „I don’t know. It’s the government. They are still studying that.”
The expression of doubt from the Murray Energy leader, whose company was the fourth-largest U. S. coal producer in 2017 according to Energy Information Administration data, follows repeated promises from Trump to revitalize the industry.
In 2008, coal provided half the nation’s power. In 2018, it was comprised about one-third of the country’s power supply, according to The New York Times. Jobs have plummeted as well, with employment decreasing 30 percent between 2014 and May 2016, Forbes reported.
Crandall Canyon coal mine co-owner Bob Murray describes video footage during a briefing about the status of rescue operations for the six trapped miners near Huntington, Utah, in 2007.
