Don’t subsidize coal; just stop trying to kill it off

Published August 21, 2018 4:00am ET



When President Trump speaks Tuesday on energy policy, he is speaking on an industry utterly changed in the past 20 years.

At the turn of the century, Americans fretted over how much we depended on foreign oil. We worried so much about running out of gas that import terminals were built so that foreign firms could ship liquefied natural gas for use in our pipelines.

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