Economics
The Last King of Coal Makes His Stand as Mines Vanish Around Him
- Robert Murray takes to the courts in fight to keep coal alive
- Paris climate accord dismissed as 'a meaningless fraud'
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At 75, Robert E. Murray may be the last of the old-time coal barons. He’s not about to go quietly.
At a time when the U.S. coal industry is beset on all sides -- by environmentalists, by regulators, by the economics of shale gas -- Murray has positioned himself as King Coal’s warrior-in-chief. And his main antagonist is the country’s commander-in-chief.