Heatmap: “Can Biden Ditch Coal Without Killing Coal Country?”
RFF Fellow Daniel Raimi is quoted in this story about the implications of EPA’s new power plant emissions rule on fossil fuel communities.
As Daniel Raimi, a fellow at Resources for the Future, told me, even though the coal transition has been in motion for decades, it’s still early. There hasn’t been enough research. Much of the funding and programs are new. No one really knows yet what’s working, or what could work better.
The only thing that’s clear, he said, is that if these communities are going to develop alternative economic futures, they really need to begin that process now.
