Supporters of the Green New Deal say they can reconcile two conflicting goals: ending the use of coal and other fossil fuels while also supporting coal miners.

“We aren’t going to transition to renewable energy without also transitioning frontline communities and coal communities into economic opportunity as well,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., promised in introducing the Green New Deal resolution. “We are placing the workers in those communities, not the fossil fuel corporations but the interests of the workers, first.”