You nighted mine workers of America International president now on the future of the coal industry. He spoke at the National Press club about issues facing the union. Welcome to the National Press club. I am the 112th president of the National Press club and a well, im an incoming investigations editor at the Associated Press rig. Right now im unemployed. We extend warm greetings to those of you listening to us on the radio or watching us on tv. Dorian turned up the east coast, Climate Change and what to do about it is at the top of political agenda for many. Alexandria ocasiocortez put forward a controversial Green New Deal. Washington state governor built his now aborted president ial Campaign Around climate and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have called out fossil fuels as the primary culprit. Our guest today, president of the United Mine Workers of america and a Vice President of the aflcio says some critical people have been left out of the conversation. Workers who
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We have lost over 2000 square miles of our coast and this is where the majority of our population lives. The last thing in the world that i would want to do is come in and proposed solutions that will further put the folks of the representatives in jeopardy. Why we will continue saying that i think the best solution is looking at the strategies that have worked and figured out how to doubly triple down on those very things that have not caused Energy Prices to skyrocket. This whole Conference Today is about the lng pause. Whether it was a good idea or a bad idea. The motivation that we have seen just last year it sitting there talking about how the United States has an abundance of natural gas and how we actually need to use it as a tool to help out our allies did this year coming out and saying they will put a freezer bed in place. Indicating to me that there. To be some politics. Using natural gas specifically using lng exports. Looking at it as a solution. If we had simply taken one
This man is somewhere in between. Neither party is really speaking to where these people are at. The person who comes closest to this set of policies that i laid out is donald trump. Host we will go next to nancy in houston, texas. Hi, nancy. Caller hi. I stopped watching your program a long time ago, because you never had anybody on there that made any sense to make of it was all these washington post, l. A. Times, all these papers and newspapers that, you know, are so for the democrat, democrat, democrat. Never anything republican. And if you did have a republican on there, oh, my god, they got slammed. This woman, i was going through the menu when i got up, this woman absolutely hit a chord with me. This is what i have been saying for years could i remember going to looking for jobs come and if you do not have a college degree, you were left out like you were a worthless piece of crap, and they would not hire you. Always the person who had the college degree, i have been a college f