LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER: Op-Ed: Trump is keeping his promises to forgotten coal communities

The president has acted quickly to remove regulations that were stifling the coal industry. He signed legislation to overturn the costly Stream Protection Rule within one month of his inauguration and issued an executive order two weeks later reviewing the Waters of the United States rule. The next month, the president featured coal workers prominently in his plan for American energy independence. He proposed repealing the so-called Clean Power Plan; lifted the ban on federal leasing for coal production; removed job-killing energy industry regulations, and returned power over local economies to the states.

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