On: Former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map

[didibus]

I'm curious, what was the actions put in place by the federal government that they blame for killing their coal industry?

[jbawgs → didibus]

In general, they blame environmental regulations rather than market forces. The area is full of urban legends about how the natural gas power plants are vastly inferior to coal fired plants, but they're being upheld by a cabal of evil liberals who want to destroy the industry because ???