Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2014. For years, the coal industry and its political allies have claimed that the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is orchestrating a war on coal. Last month, two West Virginia coal-mining companies announced the layoff of hundreds of workers, prompting additional finger pointing at the EPA’s air-quality and climate rules. In a new issue brief, the Center for American Progress takes a deeper look at the complex and compounding market conditions facing the Appalachian coal industry and discusses how the competitive coal market and geology, not an alleged war on coal, are the driving forces behind the industry’s problems.
