“Even the founder of the nation’s largest privately held coal mining company has said Trump can’t bring coal jobs back, despite being an ardent supporter. What we’re left with is the prospect of job retraining, capitalizing on coal workers’ existing skillsets to ensure they aren’t left behind.
Per the 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report, the biggest job-provider in the energy sector — solar — employs more workers than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And a focus on solar when we consider the logistics of job retraining feels actually quite promising. A 2016 Energy Economics study examined every type of job within the coal industry — from operations engineers to explosives workers — and found their most natural analog in the solar sector…”
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