While I'm not a big supporter of the politics (and money grubbing) around climate change theories, this sort of thing really is so backwards looking that if I were an American, I'd be embarrassed.

Seriously, coal?  I know that a couple of centuries ago it powered the dawn of the industrial age, but it is one of the dirtiest mining operations out there, and I would think that a huge economy like the U.S. could start investigating cleaner more efficient ways of getting energy (perhaps something more innovative than wind mills and solar panels too). 

Nor should dirty industries have carte blanche to dump their waste - if those businesses don't have the ethics to do it themselves, they need to be policed.   

All this 'unravelling' sounds to me like Trump, who sold himself to his voters as 'someone there for the little guy', is certainly bending over backwards to accommodate big money.  I'm not surprised - but one of these days those blue collar rust belt supporters might be.