December 22, 2017
Donald Trump’s promise to end what he called the war on coal played a critical role in his presidential campaign. On a “King Coal” edition of  “Truth, Politics and Power,” host Neal Conan asks what Trump has done in his first year in office to redeem his promise to revive the industry. We’ll also go to Appalachia to listen to the men and women whose jobs and way of life are threatened by cheaper, cleaner energy alternatives and mechanization; and we’ll learn about the critical role coal played as America emerged as an industrial and military power. It all started with delivering the mail.
GUESTS
Reid R. Frazier
Michael Grunwald
Peter Shulman
Reid R. Frazier covers energy for the public radio show “The Allegheny Front” and State Impact Pennsylvania, and co-hosts the Trump on Earth podcasts. “The Allegheny Front” can heard on public radio stations in western Pennsylvania, including WESA in Pittsburgh.
Michael Grunwald is a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine and the author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. He has also written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and Time magazine.
Peter Shulman is an Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University where he studies and writes about the environment, science, technology and American politics in the 19th and 20th centuries. He’s the author of Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America.
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