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President Trump gives coal miners new hope

President Trump signed an executive order reversing Obama era restrictions on greenhouse gas pollutants from coal-fired power plants. For some miners, Carolyn Beeler reports, this feels like the beginning of a new, brighter era.

(Image: President Donald Trump hands coal miners the pen he used to sign a bill eliminating regulations on the mining industry in February 2017. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

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