Trump assures executive actions to revive coal mining in the US

President Donald Trump said on Monday, March 20 that he was preparing new executive actions to save coal mining in the U.S. and put miners back to work.

"As we speak we are preparing new executive actions to save our coal industry and to save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of work. The miners are coming back," Trump told in a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, without giving any further ddetails.

It is to be noted that coal miners turned out in huge numbers for the 2016 US election. Along with manufacturing workers, coal miners came to represent the condition of working-class white Americans. Donald Trump even donned a hard hat at one rally in West Virginia as a symbol of coal mining.

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There is a new sense of optimism among the coal miners mostly from coal mining towns in Kentucky and that is linked to the election of the new president Trump whose campaign agenda frequently reiterated “We are going to put our miners back to work.”

Revival of the coal sector may be a positive news for the primary aluminium industry in the U.S. that is reeling under pressure due to high production cost and stiff competition from cheaper imports.