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Those folks that mines like this are never, ever coming back to life again. not because of regulation, but competition. coal just cannot compete with cheaper, cleaner, natural gas, wind and solar. that's the reason more coal fired power plants have gone out of business in the first two years of donald trump than the first four years of barack obama, another 20 are expected to go down this year and if a minor is hired today, chances are he'll be digging to fill the demand in india. do you feel the president gave these communities false hope? >> in my opinion, absolutely. i mean, i'm an expert. ...

I mean, i'm an expert. he's not. and i -- when he was campaigning, i asked -- i talked to his people and i said, what's your plan? how are you bringing back coal? it could be brought back if these plants would come back up. and deregulating stuff will help this much. it's not going to help a lot. >> reporter: trump's epa led by andrew wheeler recently move to lift the caps on how much carbon they can pump into the sky which really worries climate scientists like penn state's michael mann. >> we're already experiencing impacts of climate change that could have been avoided had we acted two deca...