Can Hydrogen Energy Save Coal Country?

Four years after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to coal country, the coal sector is worse-off than ever. Those shrinking communities that still do depend on coal for their and their towns’ livelihoods are finding it harder and harder to scrape by, and the future looks grim. “A harsh reality in coal country - with or without Trump”, a BBC headline read this week--and it’s true: politics can’t save coal. Nothing can. The reality is that the world is moving more and more quickly away…