The following article by Nicole Lewis was posted on the Washington Post website December 11, 2017:
Trump says the U.S. is exporting “clean coal” but there is virtually no “clean coal.” And in 2015 and 2016, West Virginia exported virtually no coal to China. (The White House)
“If you look at what’s happened in West Virginia and so many different places, we’re sending clean coal. We’re sending it out to different places — China. A lot of coal ordered in China right now. So a lot of things are changing, and they’re changing very rapidly.”
— President Trump, remarks during Taxpayer Family Event, Dec. 5, 2017
On Dec. 5, several families gathered at the White House to discuss how the GOP tax plan would benefit the middle class. One of the speakers, North Dakota state Sen. Jessica Unruh, discussed how the corporate-tax reduction would benefit her coal mining company. Unruh praised the tax plan, including a provision that reduces the tax credit for renewable wind energy, saying it would allow her to invest more money in domestic energy production. Continue reading “Trump’s claim that West Virginia is ‘sending clean coal’ to ‘China’”