Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 on an ironclad promise to save America’s flagging coal industry.
On Tuesday, Murray Energy — the nation’s largest private coal producer — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Murray Energy is is the eighth coal company to go bankrupt in the past year alone. The company employs more than 5,000 full-time employees.
View the complete October 29 article by Josh Israel on the National Memo website here.