Coal: The comeback kid?
President Trump has promised to end the "war on coal", but can he really bring jobs back to hard-hit mining communities? And what's the problem with a few rounds of golf?
President Trump signed an executive order this week suspending some of the Obama administration's measures to mitigate climate change. As he did so he said it would put an end to the "war on coal" and "job-killing regulations". But if coal's decline, as some argue, started before President Obama's environmental rules, can those jobs really be restored? President Trump's order has reignited the debate in the US about climate change with both sides threatening litigation and observers left wondering where the country now stands on the UN's Paris climate change accord.
The 大象传媒's economics editor Kamal Ahmed, North America business correspondent Michelle Fleury and Robert Armstrong, chief leader writer of the Financial Times, gather round the Trumponomics table to discuss this, plus the difference between soft and hard data and the place of business in government.
And finally, what's wrong with a few rounds of golf?
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- Sat 1 Apr 2017 02:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Europe and the Middle East