There are many great points in this piece and I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but this excerpt is very telling:

“Let’s return to the North Antelope Rochelle Mine. Once you account for the energy lost during the conversion of coal to electricity, the mine yields the equivalent of about 300,000 barrels of oil a day. Solar and wind energy, meanwhile, provided the U.S. with the equivalent of 203,000 barrels of oil a day in 2011. So a single coal mine produces about 50 percent more energy on an average day than all of the country’s solar panels and wind turbines combined. Moreover, the mine covers just 80 square miles, while domestic wind projects alone cover about 9,400 square miles.”

“The epa would never stand for?”

“Less reliable than coal?”

Excuse me, but electricity generation is now one of the simplest forms of energy creation, with inclusion of the most diversified portfolios of energy operations existent. Electricity has now been being generated on grandiose commercial, industrial scales with clean, renewable technologies, across the globe for many years. There is no defendable reason or argument to be burning coal into our air and water in today’s day, age, and environment. Please do some research before you begin to spew close-minded inaccurate propaganda out of thin air.
Sincerely.
Isaac Garcia.