MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER,  Reporters  -  Associated PressStephan: The Trump Republican coup is not only putting Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and dismantling the country's efforts to convert to renewable energy, it is literally working to take the country back to the early 20th century when coal was a main source of power. This is why I predict that by 2040, 15 years from now, the United States will be in a civilization-altering crisis that destroys the America we know. We are experiencing a modern version of the fall of the Roman Empire, and just as Emperor Diocletian (284–305 CE), caused the split of the empire into Western and Eastern factions, so psychopath Trump and his vassals are causing the Great Schism Trend. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity. Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows. Three other mines poised for expansions or new leases under Trump also face declining demand as power plants use less of their coal and in some cases shut down, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the nonprofit Global Energy Monitor. Those market realities raise a fundamental question about the Republican administration’s push to revive a heavily polluting industry that long has been in decline: Who’s going to buy all that coal? The question looms over the administration’s enthusiastic embrace of coal, a leading contributor to climate change. It also shows the [...]

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