https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/trump-coal-country
"For a moment, Jacob Hannah saw an unprecedented opportunity to make Appalachia
great again.
In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help
revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay
down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries
like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies,
with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience.
But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and
environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal
hoaxes.
“We knew we were living in a historic moment, not just because of the amount of
funding, but because the whole region mobilized to meet the moment,” said
Hannah, 33. “It was a once-in-a-generation cash injection designed to
prioritize extraction-based communities as part of the energy transition, which
for the first time in almost a century made Appalachia very competitive. So to
have it all taken away is deeply damaging and demoralizing.”
Hannah, a fifth-generation Appalachian with a bushy beard and signature
wide-brimmed hat, has been crisscrossing the country on a mission to raise
philanthropic capital to limit the economic damage caused by the Trump
administration taking a chainsaw to Biden-era grants."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
