Labor
The Tricky Politics of Hillary Clinton's Plan to Modernize Coal Country
Her $30 billion proposal is aimed at helping coal miners and their communities, but not the industry.
Is the U.S. Using Less Coal to Generate Power?
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With Hillary Clinton's announcement Thursday of a $30 billion plan to build infrastructure in coal country, the Democratic presidential front-runner is directly confronting an issue that others in her party have preferred to avoid.
Clinton's proposal to fund education, entrepreneurship, broadband access, and clean energy production (as well as preserve future benefits for the employees of coal companies) is a more than tacit acknowledgement that her energy plan will move away from America's most abundant source of fuel in favor of alternative energy sources that emit less carbon.