The last of the big-time U.S. coal companies has gone bankrupt, and in the hills of Appalachia, they\u2019re looking for their next move. How will the former coal miners find new careers and build new industries? How will the liabilities of coal companies ever get paid? And how did we get into this situation in the first place? We talk with one of the best coal reporters in the business (and a West Virginian native) to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last of the big-time U.S. coal companies has gone bankrupt, and in the hills of Appalachia, they\u2019re looking for their next move. How will the former coal miners find new careers and build new industries? How will the liabilities of coal companies ever get paid? And how did we get into this situation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,1145],"tags":[53,51,21,54,49,44,48,47,18,55,52,24,46,50,45],"class_list":["post-210","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","category-free-complete-shows","tag-arch","tag-bankruptcy","tag-coal","tag-consol","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-district-cooling","tag-district-heating","tag-energy-transition","tag-murray","tag-peabody","tag-policy","tag-vestas","tag-west-virginia","tag-wind","xen_guests-taylor-kuykendall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n