George HW Bush started it actually. His approach actually gave a boost in Kentucky with Blue Gem Coal. It's high grade and very clean. Unfortunately...it was brief. Thermal coal will continue to get beat up....and every admin has done it's best to see such. The past eight years though are unprecedented given the straight up hostile rhetoric heard......and played. The heavy subsidies to the solar industry crushed biomass as wellcompounding natty gas)

An entire industry destroyed by politics and natural gas.......the weight though is solely political.

And no it is solar that is about to get destroyed. that industry survives on subsidies only....just can not do that forever...