A Donald Trump White House will likely give a boost for the US coal industry and do away with key current and pending environmental regulations, but significant policies need to be put in place to make long-term improvements to the coal business, industry executives said Tuesday. Fred Palmer, partner at Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon and Associates and former senior vice president of government relations at Peabody Energy, and Richard Reavey, vice president of public affairs at Cloud Peak Energy, each spoke at the Coal Trading Association’s 15th annual Coal Trading Conference in New York about how President-elect Trump could bring life into an improving but long-ailing industry. Palmer called the election of a Trump “a key moment in US history” and said he expected the country will move forward and support his pro-coal energy policies. “It will be an American Renaissance; an energy Renaissance; a fossil fuel Renaissance, and coal […]